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An Extended 
Around The Summer’s 
Hottest Games 


THE JOYS OF HARD DRIVING 

Getting the Most 
Out of a Hard Disk 

POWER TELECOMMUNICATIONS 

Microphone, Red Ryder 
& Smartcom U 

SEE MAC 

Tempo Puts the 
Mac on Autopilot 

dUARTEF & ENSEMBLE 

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NEW PASCAL SERIES 

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Presentation to the Board of Directors 

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* Price Wars - How they Affect American Tech 

* American Tech f s Strengths and Weaknesses 

- Wha/'s the Competition Doing? 

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- Why We're Vulnerable 

* Recommendations 


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VOL. 1, NO. 10 JULY 1986 


MacUser 


Cover photo by Brian Hajjiwam 



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PICTURE PERFECT Presentation-qual¬ 
ity slides and transparencies need not 
cost an arm and a kg. by Roberta 
Schwartz and Michael Call ay 60 


TELE COM M U N I C A T I 0 N 

THREE-RING CIRCUITS Compare the 
virtues of three powerful programs: 

Microphone, Red Ryder and Smartcom 
II- by Robert R. Wiggins __68 



P 0 W E R C 0 M P U T I N G 

SEE MAC RUN Tempo adds macros 
and controls the Mac when you can't 
be there* by Max Whitby .38 

THE JOY OF HARD DRIVING What to 
do with your beautiful new hard 
disk, by Sharon Zardetto Aker .. .44 
GOOD THINGS IN SLIM PACKAGES 

Quartet and Ensemble offer the pow¬ 
er of integrated programs to all of 
us, even 128K users. 
by Donna Barron ..50 


P E S K T 0 P P JJ B L I S H I N G 

FLIERS ON THE FLY Fliers are easy to 
do on your Mac* by Trade Forman 
Hines and Dadd Biedn v ...54 



E H T E R T A I N M E N T 

MAKING FACES Put together the face 
of your dreams with this face con¬ 
struction kit* by Daisy Genovese ..74 

GAMES TO SHOOT OR BOOT What’s 
hot and what’s not in rodavs games. 

by Trade Fonuan Hines .,80 

UNDER CONSTRUCTION Build your 
own scenarios for these seven games 
that will never wear out. by Ted 
Salamone... . . ....... 86 





























BEYOND BABE BASIC Extend the 
power of BASIC using CLR’s Ma- 
chine Language Libraries, by Sharon 

Zardetto Aker ...,... 92 

A TASTE OF PASCAL The first part of 
our scries begins with a skeleton 
application, by Steven Martin ... 104 


0_ L _ U M N s 

THE EDITOR'S DESKTOP The Key to 

Software, by Neil L. Shapiro..*. . 9 

WEST COAST REPORT The Software 
Odyssey, by Michael D. Wesley -25 
THE MACINTOSH BOUNDARY More 
Fun Than Street Repair, by Doug 

Clapp ........29 

THE HELP FOLDER Answers from the 
Mac Team, by Dan Cochran .... 118 
THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE They Sold 
Their Souls to the Fortune 1000. by 
John C. Dvorak ......,*..144 


DEPARTMENTS 

LETTERS Readers have their say. from 

the Mac Community . .. 15 

NEW ON THE MENU Lawsuits, missing 
data, version numbers and great 

rumors ... 18 

QUICK CLICKS N i lie rev i ew s of cxc i t- 

ing programs.. 32 

TIP SHEET Special hints direct from 
Apple this month, compiled by David 

Biedny and Steven Bobktr . ,,.,115 

MINIFINDERS Hundreds of capsule 
reviews to help you pick and 

choose... 122 

ADVERTISERS INDEX. .....136 


































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THE KEY 
TO SOFTWARE 

M y first introduction ro a key dub 
came when 1 was about eight years 
old in the mid-fit ties* My unde, 
who must have been around 18 then, 
joined one of the first Playboy Clubs and 
received a gold-plated key as a token of 
membership in Hugh Hefner's just-bur¬ 
geoning society He Hashed that key so 
often rhac it hardly seemed to matter chat 
the closest Playboy bunnv was a good 
350 miles away. 

Impressionable youth, l vowed that 
someday, I too, would be a member of a 
key dub. Rut, a Lis, time tarnishes all 
dreams, I understand that if you join the 
Playboy Club these days you get a gold' 
colored, plastic credit card instead of a 
real, shiny gold key. I also know that 
there are some key clubs in which you 
just wouldn’t want to be a member. A 
good example was my next experience 
with a key club, it same in the late 
seventies when 1 visited a friend who was 
then working for Hayden Publishers. He 
too was interested in keys, but not the 

bunny variety* 

Instead lie gleefully asked me if I 
would like to see the tutu re of software, a 
device that would save all software pub¬ 
lishers from the onslaught of software 
piracy. It was, he assured me, a revolu¬ 
tionary concept that I would [usr love. 

So, OK, what was it? He pulled from 
his desk drawer an unassuming device. 
Eor vou techies, it was a DIP header 
block; the rest of us would describe it as 
something diat looked pretty much like 
one of the smaller chips in our coinput* 
ers bur about four times as thick. 

The plan, he told me, was to package 
it with a new compiler program for the 
Apple II that Hayden was then coming 
out with. The little device, which he 
called a "hardware key," would plug into 
the Apples internal game (joystick) port. 
Each program would be packaged with 
such a hardware key and the disk would 
be unprotected. Rut the program would 
not run at all without the key being 
plugged into the computer. So, a legiti¬ 
mate owner could copy [he software 
many, many times and satisfy any para¬ 
noid desire for multiple backups without 
having to resort to nibble programs and 



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parameter changes. Rut if a pirate tried 
to hoist the (oily Roger on that pro- 
gram, his or her hopes would sink to the 
bottom of the sea since, without the 
hardware key, the floppy disks became 
only simply odd-shaped and not very 
,ie n >d y 1 i a m i e fr is bees. 

He looked at me 1 looked at him. We 
both looked at the hardware key* 1 
wondered why a cold chill oj premoui 
rion swept along my spine. 

Within a year I had about four or five 
program with hardware keys. Each pro¬ 
gram was a utility of some sort — a 
programming language, terminal pro¬ 
gram, that sort of thing They were all 
real productivity tools that I used quite a 
bit. This meant that every time 1 wanted 
to change from one program to another 
l had to swap one hardware key for 
another. That was probably the most 
annoying thing that anyone who has 



never actually been tortured can imagine. 
But the swapping was nothing at all 
compared to the horror of hardw are key 
failure. 

My mother-in-law is a wonderful lady, 
except that one day she killed one of my 
hardware keys. 1 was writing a book on 
telecommunications and was using a cer¬ 
tain terminal program both as a prime 
example in the book and as a tool ro help 
me download such things as menu struc¬ 
tures and command lists from various 
networks and electronic BBSs. The ter¬ 
minal program used a hardware key 

One day I left the hardware key on the 
side of my desk instead of in the link 
hardware key box ! had designed. The 
key fell oft the table (I don't know how) 
and my mother-in-law stepped on it and 
crushed it into shattered plastic oblivion. 

I was desperate. I had a deadline to 
nicer on the book and my terminal 
program wouldn't work. Luckily, I was 
friendly with the author of the program. 
I called him up and began screaming 
incoherently* He told me how to use a 
disk editor to change the program so 


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that it wouldn’t need the hardw are key 
to run. 

After seeing rhe terrible fix the hard¬ 
ware key had placed me in he also 
determined that all ftvturc versions of Ins 
product would no longer be protected 
by hardware add-ons. He is still in 
business and Ins terminal program {com- 
pkteh unprotected now ), in a new vet 
sion, is one of the best sellers for the 
Apple II. So, he survived that decision, 

Gradually, people began to hate these 
little kevs that clunked around in soft¬ 
ware packaging They were rune bombs 
waiting to go oft; no more than one 
person's distrust of olhei people made 
into an integrated circuit. 

In about anothei two years, after a 
ver y brief period of popularity, the hard¬ 
ware key vanished from the realm of 
personal computing. I think main; many 
people must have sighed with relief. And 
so tilings stood until [list recently 

The Macintosh is a funny machine 
when it comes to copy protection. The 
easiest form of protection is built into 
the system's hinder routines, 1 he “Linder 
Attributes" may be set by a programmer 
to achieve various means of protecting 
programs from illicit copying* 

The “invisible'' bit can be turned on so 
that a file cannot be seen on the desktop. 
This now 1 invisible file lju then be hunt¬ 
ed tbj by the application program. No 
invisible file? The application will not 
run. The “protect” bit and other such 
attributes work in similar ways. But it is 
very simple to defeat these Finder attri¬ 
butes with any number of public-domain 
and commercial disk editors. 

Other protection schemes art based on 
the Mac's extremely Mil art and fantasti¬ 
cally controllable disk drives. Some pub¬ 
lishers have moved into very esoteric 
schemes to copy protect that products. 
These schemes involve everything from 
“bad sectors" to laser scratches burnt 
into the surface of the disk. 

While we can debate the merits of 
copy protection forever, one thing is, at 
this point* undebatabk: every method 
tried so tar h^s failed. I am not aw are of 
am program for the Macintosh that 
features a software protection scheme 
that has not been “ciackcdT Copy pro* 
tectiou does not work, ar feast not much 
longer than the first few months of a 
prod u c t's aval lability* 

Unfortunately, one other thing is also 
undebat able; There arc people who 
think that pirating software is not low 
and dirty thievery (They are mistaken*) 
So, software manufacturers are always on 
the lookout for new and better ways to 
improve their copy protection in order 
ro stay one step ahead of the lowlife. The 


JULY 19 9 6 MACUSER9 







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larcsr solution to rear its Medusa-like 
head is the hardware key. 

This is something which we, as a 
community * cannot allow to happen. It 
is, in my opinion, bad for everyone 
concerned, be they end user or manufac¬ 
turer, The hardware key can spell disaster 
for anyone that has any sort of stake or 
interest in personal computing in general 
and the Macintosh in particular. Here’s 
why. The scheme that is now going 
around is that the Macintosh hardware 
key will be easy to use. Rather than 
having to swap the keys for various 
programs, one key can protect six to 
eight programs and these programs may 
be from various manufacturers. It will 
just be a “coding” step needed for each 
program. The key itself will plug onto 
the serial port in the back, easy and 
convenient to reach. All of this sounds 
great but it leaves out a few problems. 

The first problem is that nothing lasts 
forever — including hardware keys. 
Sooner or later some of the keys will 
malfunction or be damaged (maybe by a 
mother-in-law). The programs depen¬ 
dent on the use of the damaged key will 
cease to function. All of them will cease 
to function. All. 


For some forsceablc future it will be 
possible to mail the key in and get a 
replacement. Of course even then, there 
will be that long delay (it will seem long 
even if it is short) before the programs 
that are now locked away from their 
rightful, legal, responsible owner can be 
accessed again. Rut isn't it also possible 
that the company making such a key may 
go out of business? That the key may 
someday be irreplaceable? 

More importantly, is this a solution 
even for the manufacturer? I don’t think 
so. There are three main reasons for 
people breaking copy protection. They 
are; simply because it is a challenging 
thing to do; the need for backups or 
hard-disk runnable copies; and to pirate. 
The people who break copy protection 
with pirating in mind are the minority. 
Rut once the other two groups break the 
protection then always, somehow, the 
software finds its way to the pirates. 

A hardware key is simply the most 
challenging copy protection to defeat. 
And it is defeatable. All that will likely he 
needed will be some working knowledge 
o t'AlacNosy or a different disassembler to 
poke around in the code and find out 
where the program looks for the key. 


Presto, — in the click of a mouse the 
program no longer will need the key. 

People will be able to have backups 
that do not call for the key. They will be 
able to place it on a hard disk and move 
the disk from machine to machine with¬ 
out worrying about the key. And, yes, 
the pirates will have the program too. 

The real solution to this dilemma lies 
not in copy protection or in hardware 
keys. Educating the public to the fact 
that piracy hurts everyone can truly pro¬ 
tect the software industry. The money 
that companies presently put into copy¬ 
protection schemes and into such de¬ 
signs as hardware keys would be far 
better spent on public education. 

The solution certainly docs not lie in 
all of us allowing ourselves to be poten¬ 
tial victims of hardware problems that 
may make our software dollars so much 
vaporware. 

I recommend that we learn from histo¬ 
ry. 1 do nor personally intend to pur¬ 
chase any software that requires the use 
of anv sort of hardware key. I suggest 
that everyone reading this plan on doing 
likewise. This seems the best way to get 
our message across. 

This is one key club I’ll not 



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RICH MAN, POOR MAN? 

I greatly enjoyed your column. 'The 
Famous Computer Columnists 1 
School,” {April 86). Great good fun. 
And when I saw myself listed alongside 
Wozntak and Budge as a Tlkh Comput- 
er Person,’" 1 really had to laugh. I’ve 
been publicly bemoaning my poor royal¬ 
ties tor Balance of Power — now nobody 
will believe me! Oh well, any time you 
want to hang out with me, my sheep, 
ponies* dogs, eats or ducks, you’re wel¬ 
come to give us a calL You can even 
pump my friend Betsy for "inside sniff.” 
Betsy’s a burro,.,, 

Chius Crawford 

SAN JOSE. CA 

ITS ALL IN THE CODE 

T hank you for your informative article 
on the neu Macintosh Plus, Like many 
others. I have tried out the new machine 
in stores, and it looks like a real winner. 

Has Apple changed the machine codes 
in the ikw Mac Plus? If so, does that 
mean rhat the codes I bund in Inside 
Macintosh won’t work with the Plus? 
Please advise, 

Edward A. Cowan 
ARLINGTON, TX 

IfyotPrc reform a to A-trap codes, thn're 
the same. All the Toolbox calls work fine; ht 
fact, there are a number of new ones. Bat 
the addresses of the calls may be different; be 
sure to use the "Get Address Trap” trap to 
locale correct addresses .—DB 

EAGLE EYE 

H ow about this Mae Bug of the Month: 

The cover of Mac User's March 1986 
issue features a Mac that isn’t a Macin¬ 
tosh Plus. The keyboard gives it away. 
The Plus has no indent of the keys on the 
lower left (or right) corners, unlike the 
original keyboards. The keyboard on the 
cover has the indents. 

Guess you couldn’t get a Plus in time 
tor your deadline? 

Mike Kent 
VALPARAISO. IN 

Tan W tfot jjottd eyes. While preparing 
that article jiv \rnr a Mac Pins and tfot 
bands-on time T but we weren't able to 
photojiraph it. And we missed cropping off' 
that comer! — SB 

A MINUS FOR THE PLUS 

I got a Macintosh Plus when it was 
brand new and it’s a great computer. 
The megabyte really helps; I can install 
Write, Paint , Draw and 11 r ovd in memory' 
using Switcher, which is very convenient. 

One thing that prospective buyers 
should be aware of, however, is that the 


Mac Plus is not totally compatible with 
all the original Macintosh software. The 
Plus uses a different procedure for high¬ 
speed graphics, so something like Air¬ 
borne is likely to produce a blank area on 
the screen where the action is taking 
place. To me this is a major design Haw. 
Actually, most Mac programs do work 
on the Plus, bur this kind of inconsisten¬ 
cy is annoying to action game lovers like 
myself. 

John Wolfenden 

(HAITI Hll.L. SC 

Airborne seemed to work fine for us on the 
Mac Plus. The game problems tend to crop 
up with programs that use a technique 
called u screen flipping” to achieve their 
animation. The original Mac technical doc¬ 
umentation discouraged usintj this tech¬ 
nique , to ensure compatibility nith future 
Macintosh architectures . — DB 

WISHING ON A MAC 

I am the owner of an Atari 520 ST 
Monochrome System, I started reading 
Mac in tosh-related magazines when l was 
trying to decide which 16/32 bit ma¬ 
chine to upgrade to. When l picked up 
your first issue, I was very* impressed. All 
of the aspects of MacUser arc f ar superior 
to any other computer magazines. 

With Antic and Analog I have about 
30 minutes of reading, whereas MacUser 
takes me several days to read. Your 
magazine is really jam packed with infor¬ 
mation. How do you all do so much in a 
month’s time? I like the Macintosh but it 
costs rtvo much for my pocket, so f had 
to settle for the Atari 52GST- 

Even though I own a rival computer 
{hey. don’t hate me!) I will continue to 
buv AIaether, i only hope there will be a 
magazine as good for the ST someday! 
Sam Dovvdll 
MEMPHIS, IN 



A-eCD^E—FONTS 

T his concerns Dan Cochran’s answer 
(April 86) to Bruce Seizer, who asked 
about alphabetizing his font menu. Dan 
indicated that there are only two wavs to 
do this: upgrade to a Mac Plus, or empty 
all fonts from the System (an impossibil¬ 
ity, by the way) and re-install them in 
inverse alphabetical order. 

Readers should be aware that there is a 
simple 2K public domain application 
called SortMenu, available in many User 
Group libraries, that does exactly what 
Seizer wants. Drag it to the System disk, 
run it once, and thereafter the DA and 
font menus automatically alphabetize 
themselves. This is both cheaper and 
easier than rhe two methods recom¬ 
mended. 

User Groups that don’t already have 
SortMenu can get it by sending a format¬ 
ted disk and SASH to me e/o UUMUG, 
338 OSH, University of Utah, Salt Lake 
City, UT 84112. 

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SAIT LAKE CITY, U J 

BEST Of THE REST 

I ’m puzzled at the exclusion of many 
established products, w hile several lim¬ 
ited or discontinued ones are listed in the 
Mini hinders. In particular, I notice the 
omission of CE Soft w a re's MockPackatye 
programs. Not only is it some of the 
most productive and well-designed soft¬ 
ware , and a real value for the price, its 
Mock Write bolsters one of the weakest 
Mac categories, word processing. 
Dennis B. Appleton 
LYNRRQOK, NY 

NO BACKTALK 

M ini hinders is a favorite feature, I am 
surprised that rhe advertisers have not 
forced you to stop publishing it. 

En C Err 

SUNDERLAND. AIA 

THE TIME HAS COME 

W ord processing is probably the most 
used application on all computers. I 
haven't seen an update on the “state of 
the art” in the Macintosh environment 
relativ e to this application for some time, 
It w ould he of great interest to learn 
what has happened to the word proces¬ 
sors. spelling checkers, and other types of 
word processing enhancement utilities 
for the Mae, I know' there arc new 
programs but I haven't the faintest idea 
about which ones arc worthwhile. I 
would also like to know if any progress 
has been made in the area of print 
spooling and buffering, especially for 


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Word. Is there a chance III see an article 
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not too distant future? 

JERE RASHJNSKl 
OAKLAND. CA 

Ta. — SB 


THE FUTURE IN STRIPS 

W hile reading Steven Bobker's article 
on the Cau/in Softstrip system, I 
could not help hut think about the 
impact the device could have on the 
marketing of disk-based software. Now, 
for the price of a magazine ad, software 
publishers can send a demo version of 
their products to thousands of computer 
users. 

Hopefully, the Cauzin System will 
catch on and desk top commercials will 
offer the user a new way of deciding 
which product to purchase, 

Mark Gland on 

CHILL IGOTHE, OH 


I have purchased a Cauzin Reader for use 
with my Apple Macintosh. The fit and 
finish of the mechanism arc superb. The 
software is simple and easy to use in the 
finest Mac tradition. I have used it to 
read every softstrip I can get my hands 
on. The reader has performed perfectly, 
although some strips have required a 
second try- 

So, now irk up to you. I have voted 
with my wallet and hope that you will 
support me. My reader is all wanned up 
and waiting. 

Murray Foster 

FAIRFIELD, IA 

Starting with this issue , well be tunning 
at least a paste of Soft snips every month. 
Well include an from the Picture Palette, 
the best of public domain software a? id code 
listings from programming an teles, — SB 


FOR THE RECORD 

W e appreciate your review of Record 
Holder {Quick Clicks* April); howev¬ 
er, we would like to clear up nvo miscon¬ 
ceptions. Record Holder provides full font 
support: newly created fields get the 
default font, but the font can then easily 
he changed. Also, though we don't pro¬ 
vide LaserWriter system files, Record 
HoldiT works fine with the LaserWriter 
on a properly configured system. 

On a separate note, we are now ship¬ 
ping version 2.1, which added several 
new features and enhancements includ¬ 
ing optimizing LaserWriter printing to 
make it much faster. We arc sending this 
version as a free upgrade ro all owners of 
the origin ill Record Holder, 

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NEW 

ON IKE 






This dialog box was sub¬ 
mitted by Jim Lanford, Pres¬ 
ident of Micro Dynamics, 
Ltd. He says it was discov¬ 
ered when trying to spell 
check with MacLrgfttn/ng 
while in Edit, which had 
been launched from Way- 


Station. A $25 check is on 
its way to Jim. See any un¬ 
usual dialog boxes lately? 
Share 'em with The Rest of 
Us by sending them to Mac- 
User Dialog Box. MacUser, 
25 West 39th Street. New 
York, NY 10018 — TFH 


THE PICTURE “THEY” WOULDN’T LET YOU SEE 


A recent advertisement by 
ProVUE featured a small im¬ 
age of a MacUser magazine 
cover, which highlighted the 
fact that OverVUE 2,0 won 
the Editors' Choice Award 
for best data manager (as it 
well deserved to). The ad¬ 
vertisement was submitted 
to a major competitor of 
MacUser, but mere days be¬ 
fore the ad deadline, Pro- 
VUE's ad agency received a 
call saying the ad contained 
"offensive" material — our 
cover! Here's the ad as It 
was printed by "the other 
magazine" — and here's the 
original ad. An editor at the 
competing magazine said, 
"Our advertising policy and 
our editorial policy are two 
different things." — TFH 





INFOCOM SOLD 
TO ACTIVISION 


Activision, which nude its 
fanic and fortune developing 
action videogames in the early 
80's, acquired infocofti, the 
company Ik sc known for its 
popular text adventure line 
that includes Zork and Hitch¬ 
hikers Guide to the Galaxy. 

Infucom had been strug¬ 
gling back from fiscal difficul¬ 
ties surrounding its database 
program ('ontamme, which 
slaughtered the cash cow cre¬ 
ated by In toco ill's game line 
and turned out to be more of 
a stone around its corporate 
neck. 

A ct i v is ion only reeen rly 
committed itself to develop¬ 
ing h igh-qual i ty strategy 
games for the Mac, including 
Hacker, Borrowed Time and 
Alta- Ejjo. With the anticipat¬ 
ed completion of the In focom 
sale by July, the company ae- 
q u i res 11 ie e n t i re I i ne of I nft )- 
com text adventures .—TFH 


MAC THE TEACHING TOOL 



Children and the Mac are 
a natural combination (just 
watch a 4 year-old try her 
hand at MacPamting), 
There's always been a 


dearth of educational prod¬ 
ucts targeted directly at 
kids. 

To help fill the void, Uni¬ 
com Software has released 


five educational titles for 
the Mac: Macfiobofs 

($49.95) consists of five 
early learning games for 
kids from preschool to 6: 


Animat Kingdom ($49.95) 
teaches 6 to 12 year-old 
children basic science and 
language arts; Read-A- 
Rama ($59,95) is a two- 
disk reading and spelling 
program for kids aged 5 to 
9; and Fraction Action and 
Decimal Dungeon ($49.95 
each) are arcade-style math 
programs. 

All the programs except 
Amma/ Kingdom incorporate 
speech technology. Look for 
reviews In upcoming Mac- 
User Issues, or contact Uni¬ 
corn Software, 2950 E, Fla¬ 
mingo Road. Greenview 
Park, Suite B, Las Vegas, 
NV 89121, (702) 737-8862 
for more information.— TFH 


18 MACUSER JULY 1986 


BERT M0MR0Y 















































SUSAN COHEN 




TlirboToudi nr Mouse Sys¬ 
tem's A + M<msc arc not that 
much cheaper. 

Another route is tu replace 
any parts rliar are had. What? 
You didn't know chat was 
possible and neither did your 
dealer? Well, it is. Here are 
some parts, numbers and 
prices: new ball, PN 699- 
8001, $9; retaining ring, PN 
815-0409, $1,80; cable, PN 
590-0320, S21; recondi¬ 
tioned mouse, PN 661 - 
96155, $36. Those are dealer 
prices; you should expect to 
pay more. 

The reconditioning option 
requires that the ill mouse 
actually be sent to Apple. The 
whole process can take a week 
or two, so you should rry to 
get a loaner for that period. 
—SB 


DEATH NOTICE 

Apple Computer, Ine„ an¬ 
nounced the passing of the 
M ac i n tosh 512 K person al 
computer on April 14, 1986. 
Its corporate role will be filled 
by die Macintosh 512K En¬ 
hanced personal computer, 
which contains the new 128K 
ROM chip set, an 800K, 
double-sided disk drive and 
512K of RAM. The replace¬ 
ment computer will have the 
same keyboard, 1G port ar¬ 
rangement and list price 
(S1999) as the departed. It 
will not conic with MacWrite 
and MacPaint. The new ma¬ 
chine is available now, Sparc 
parts and services for the de¬ 
parted are expected to be 
available indefinitely. — SB 


MEDICINE FOR A SICK MOUSE 


THE MISSING 9K 


Sharp-eyed users of Sys¬ 
tem 3.x and Finder 5.x have 
noticed that their former 
400K disks now hold only 
391K! What happened to 
the missing 9K, and, better 
yet, what happens when you 
stick a disk that had OK 
available, that was loaded 
right up to the 400K mark, 
into this environment? Do 
you lose 9K of data, and, if 
so, how does the Mac deter¬ 
mine which 9K to elimi¬ 
nate? A bad choice could be 
fatal to the disk! 

The answer is simple, re¬ 
assuring and somewhat his¬ 
torical. Nothing is lost! It r $ 
just that a K (or kilobyte) Is 
now calculated accurately 
(as 1024 bytes). However, 
when the Mac was originally 
designed, It was decided 
that it would be easier for 
users to work with K's of 
exactly 1000 bytes. That 
strange accounting has per¬ 
sisted until now. The new 
System and Finder correctly 
convert the old (and larger) 
sizes to the correct, new 
values. As a check, multiply 
391 by 1024, You should 
get 400,384. or 400K (In 
the Mac's old way of mea¬ 
suring K), — SB 


Is your mouse ill? 
move it, onlv ro find the 
cursor remaining obstinately 
in place? I lave you cleaned 
rhe critter, only to find the 
problem is still there? 


One sure cure is a new 
mouse. You can probahly r get 
a new mouse, bur official Ap¬ 
ple mice have a suggested list 
price of S106 and the alterna¬ 
tives, such as Assimilation's 


fn our April issue, on page 
143 in the Picture Palette, 
we published a stylized por¬ 
trait from Alan Stevens. This 
illustration was, In fact, a 
close copy of an Illustration 
by Marcos Oksenhendler 
that appeared in the New 
York Sunday Daily News on 
Dec. 1, 1985. We would 


like to apologize to Mr. Ok¬ 
senhendler and the News 
for this unintended plagar- 
ism. 

From now on, we can only 
accept digitized images if 
accompanied by a signed 
assurance that they repre¬ 
sent original work. "Original 
work" does not Include 


modified versions of other 
peoples' creative efforts, 
whether fine art, photo¬ 
graphs or Illustrations. 

Please don't let this stop 
you from using the Mac to 
Its and your fullest poten¬ 
tial, but be aware of the 
ethical and legal issues in¬ 
volved In creating artwork. 


THE HAND BONE’S CONNECTED TO THE ARM BONE 


Do you know the differ¬ 
ence between your femur 
and your fibula? With the 
visual aid of Mac Anatomy, 
you can find the answers 
fast, 

MacAnatomy Is an elec¬ 
tronic atlas of human anato¬ 
my in full-sized MacPaint 
documents. Each disk con¬ 
tains fifteen pages, with 
Six to eight drawings on 
each page, and there are 
four disk volumes available. 
Volumes cost $95 each, 
$350 for the complete four- 
volume collection. For fur¬ 
ther information, contact 
MacMedic Publications, 
Inc*, 5805 Westheimer, 
Houston, TX 77057, (713) 
977-2655. — RBK 

















NEW 

ONTO 


CAN THE JACKINTOSH BE A MACINTOSH? 


At the recent West Coast 
Computer Fairc, Data Pacific 
Inc, showed a product called 
a Mac Cartridge, a device that 
makes the Atari ST emulate a 
Macintosh when it's plugged 
in. It reportedly worked very 
well with programs that 
aren't too heavily copy-pro¬ 
tected, and InfoWorld colum¬ 


nist Jerry Pourndle wrote 
that the Mac-compatible ST 
ran Excel 20 percent faster 
than a Mac. 

Don’t go rushing down to 
your computer store just yet, 
though — Data Pacific uses 
the Mac's own ROM chips, 
which were bought from Ap¬ 
ple, but the legal status of the 


product is scill somewhat 
hazy. Until Apple gives Data 
Pacific the green light to sell 
(or decides instead to pull the 
plug), the Mac Cartridge will 
not be available to the public. 
Contact Data Pacific Inc., PO 
Box 10805, Marina Del Rev, 
CA, 90295 for more informa¬ 
tion as it happens, — TFH 



NOT THE DIALOG BOX 
OF THE MONTH, BUT... 


This mock error message 
was created by Al McAnespy 
of Houston, IX, A $25 check 
has been sent off for his 
great sense of humor. Got 
something funny you'd like 


to share? Send it on in to 
MacUser Funnies, MacUser, 
25 West 39th Street, New 
York, NY 10018. Stick with 
us, kids, well make you a 
star !—TFH 


MENU 



For those of us who are 
novice Macintosh users, or 
forgetful users, there is a help¬ 
ful "desk accessory" called 
MncHclp* It is a snugly fitting 
cue card that is available in 
two sizes to fit either your 
Macintosh monitor or your 
keyboard, depending on how 
you use your Mac. 

The MncHclp cue card dis¬ 
play's keystroke shortcuts for 
Macintosh programs. You 
can take the guesswork out of 


using popular software by us¬ 
ing ibis reference guide, 
MncHclp offers cue cards 
for five programs: Word, 
Multi plan, E\ai jazz, 
MncWiitc and MacPaint (the 
latter two are combined). 
Each cue card is priced at 
SI4.95. For further informa¬ 
tion, contact B. ChristoffH 
Mac Help Products, 630 W. 
Westlcigh Rd,, Lake Forest, 
IL 60045, (312) 295- 

1182 .—RBK 


RUMOR MANAGER 

At least three different 
companies have color laser 
printers In the works. It 
seems the major problems 
are with the toner cartridge 
.... AshtonTate, with sever* 
al excellent Mac products 
on its shelves, will actually 
get one to the market 
Recent developments in the 
Middle East have resulted In 
a large order of Macs can¬ 
celed at the last second in a 
high-technology embargo 
.... Doug Clapp is debating 
a second career as a coun¬ 
try and western singer. 


Those who have seen him 
say he T s a sure thing, but 
those who have heard him 
aren't so sure A superso¬ 
phist icated home robot is in 
the works, and guess which 
computer will be its front 
end .... The game company 
squeeze is about to reach a 
critical point, with major 
players frantically bidding 
for what amounts to each 
other Steve Jobs has 
reportedly broken It off with 
his punk rock friend, but he 
was recently seen lunching 
at Spago with the gorgeous 


star of a prime-time soap 
.... Apple will be producing 
and marketing its own really 
terrific new Mac software 
packages .... Plans for a 
laptop Mac have been tem¬ 
porarily shelved due to trou¬ 
ble meeting FCC regulations 
.... Coleco, the company 
that nearly went down with 
its Adam, is said to be 
readying a color Mac-com¬ 
patible for release some¬ 
time in 1987. Maybe the 
new computers will be craft¬ 
ed In a cabbage patch? (((t 
The proliferation of Mac 


shows will continue unabat¬ 
ed (see you all there) .... 
Commodore is considering 
having third-party develop¬ 
ers use the Amiga's custom 
graphics and sound chips to 
produce a coprocessor 
board for the upcoming 
“open 1 ' Mac, giving it an 
Amiga emulation mode .... 
The price of Al products will 
drop to the value of the 
programs (in some cases, 
that means they might have 
to pay you to use them) .... 
A holographic display for 
the Mac? 


20 MACUSER JU LY 1986 


ALEX QUESADA 
























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FOR A SONG 

Lotus has introduced an 
enhanced version of Jazz . 
Version 1A has a retail price 
of $395, and claims to ac¬ 
cess the disk faster than the 
previous edition. It also fea¬ 
tures full LaserWriter sup¬ 
port, and eliminates the Key 
disk requirement for running 
the program on a hard disk* 
Jazz 1A can address up to 1 
megabyte of RAM to permit 
larger documents. See your 
dealer for details or contact 
Lotus Development Corp,, 
55 Cambridge Parkway, 
Cambridge, MA 02142, 
(617) 577-8500, — TFH 


UPDATES 

Do you have the latest 
versions of your programs? 
Most programs indicate 
what version they are when 
you look in the About . * . 
choice at the top of the 
Apple menu. If your version 
isn't the latest, contact the 
publisher about possible up¬ 
grades, Look for addresses 
In our MiniFInder section, 
Here's our list (as of press 
time). — SB 

Aztec C l,06g 

BatteryPak 1.11 

Balance of Power 1.03 
ClickOn Worksheet 1.3 
ColorChart 1.3 

ColorPrint 2.01 

ConcertWare+ 3.0 

Copy II Hard Disk 5,2 

Copy II Mac 5.2 

Crunch 2.0 

Dollars & Sense 1,3 

Excel 1,01 

ExperLISP 1.04 

ExperLogo 1.1 

Factfinder 1.1 

Fedit 3.8 

Finder (HF5)* 5.2 

Finder (MFS>* 4,1 

FQNTastic 2.7 

Font/DA Mover 3.1 

Fontographer 2,0 

Hard Disk Utility 1.2 

Hayden Speller 1,2C 

Helix 2.0 r5 

Home Accountant 1.03 
ImageWriter Driver 2,2 
InTouch 2.1 

Jazz 1A 

Just Text 1,1 

LaserWriter Driver 3.0 
Draw 1,9 

Mach 1 1.1 

MacBackup 3,5 


MacBase 1,0 

MacDraft i.l 

MacLabeler 2,0 

MacNosy 2,1 

MacPaint 1.5 

Mac5peil+ 1,1 

MacTerminal 2,0 

MacTools 4,5 

MacWrite 4.5 

Mac Zap Copier 4,1 

Mac Zap Tools 3,5 

Mac Zap Patcher 3,1 

MeasureTest 3.6 

Microphone 1,0 

Micro Planner 1,1 

MS BASIC 2,1 

MS Chart 1.00 

MS File 1,01 

MS Fortran 2.1 

MS Word 1,05 

Multiplan 1.1 

MusicWorks 1.1 

Omnis 3 3.10.MAC 

OverVUE 2,0d 

PageMaker 1.2 

QUED 1.4 

Quickset 2.0 

Rags to Riches 2.6 

ReadySetGo 2.1 

Red Ryder 9.0 

Resource Editor l.Odll 
Slide Show Magician 1.3 
Smartcom (I 2.2B 

StatWorks 1.2 

Switcher 4.9 

ThinkTank 512 1.2 

ThunderScan 3.1 

Top Desk 1.2 

Turbocharger 2.0 

VersaTerm 2.00 

*HFS is Apple's new Hierar¬ 
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comes in ROM in J the Mac 
Plus, MFS stands for Macin¬ 
tosh File System and is the 
old, "regular" file system. 


BUG OF THE MONTH 


This month's winner is Fred 
Schwartz from Ithaca, N Y. 
Fred uncovered a nasty little 
critter in Microsoft Chart. 

He explained that Chart 
has some problems dealing 
with stacked charts that 
contain negative values. 
When a stacked chart is 
created, any negative data 
values appear as positive 
values, resulting in an inac¬ 
curate chart. Instead of us¬ 
ing the negative numbers 
correctly, Chart apparently 
sees them as their absolute 
values. The absolute value 


of a negative number is the 
same number, only positive. 
This problem occurs with all 
of the different chart types. 

A $25 check has been 
sent to Fred. Get your bug 
reports in and you may be 
the next lucky winner. Send 
your reports to Bugsy, c/o 
MacUser Magazine, 25 W, 
39 St.. NYC, NY 10018. Re¬ 
member to include all the 
details, such as what Find¬ 
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cessories were in the Sys¬ 
tem , and exactly how you 
stumbled on your bug. 



Yes, but does it run Excel? 


BEWARE! LAWYERS ON THE LOOSE! 


Recently, the New York 
Mae Users 1 Group (NY- 
MUG) tried to register its 
newsletters name (Mac Street 
fetmtal) as a trademark. As a 
result, NYMUG has been 
sued by both Apple Comput¬ 
er and McDonald's. 

Apple's suit protests the use 
of tlie name since, in their- 
not-very-humble opinion, it 
“is likely to cause confusion in 
the minds of the trade and of 
the public that |NYMUG]’s 
goods . , , are licensed, spon¬ 
sored or otherwise offered by 
[Apple], whereas, in fact, they 
arc not." Furthermore, Ap¬ 
ple’s brief claims that the use 
of the name is a “patent at¬ 
tempt to derieve the public. ., 
by hitching a free ride on the 
reputation’" of Apple, It's not 
clear what is required of NY¬ 
MUG — possibly donations 
of labor to the Mac assembly 
lines. If this wasn’t so sad, it 
would be silly. J guess the 


legal department has to justify 
its existence sometimes. 

If you thought that was 
bad, read on. The hamburger 
people are unhappy with the 
use of Mac as prefix, in gener¬ 
al, and in the title of this 
newsletter, in particular. They 
sent NYMUG a 42 page brief 
(isn't it wonderful what hap¬ 
pens when vou combine 
boredom with copying ma¬ 
chines) that includes every' 
trademark McDonald's has 
ever held (no, there has never 
been a fast food Mac Street 
Journal), They also offered 
NYMUG a generous deal: 
NYMUG could register its 
newsletter title as a trade¬ 
mark, as long as it refrains 
from using the word “Mae" 
in any advertising or editorial 
copy, I think I’ll remember 
their generosity the next time 
I have a fast food attack. 

Anyone for a Mac Dele use 
Fund? — SB 


22MACUSER JULY 1 9 S 6 

































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Developers, publishers and pur¬ 
veyors of software are understand¬ 
ably interested in making lots of it. Some 
of them, particularly in the Mac market¬ 
place, have had a difficult time doing 
that. Sales of Mae software have nor 
lived up to expectations, causing some 
major publishers and distributors to pull 
out of the Mac market entirely, or to cur 
back heavily on their Mac investments. 
For many publishers, the sales of Mae 
products have not been sufficient to 
justify the (often enormous) develop 


much help. It had hundreds of software 
packages for Apple II, Amiga, IBM and 
Atari, but only about ten titles for the 
Mac, none of them particularly useful 
and none even resembling Smart com II. 

The salesman^owner came by very 
quickly when he saw me in the Mac 
section and said that he could offer me a 
great deal on any Mac software I wanted 
because lie was unloading the stuff and 
would no longer carry it. He was almost 
apologetic as he told me that he liked the 
Mac, but Mac software just didn't move. 

I finally found a copy of Stnartcmn 
later, when l had wheels under my feet 
again, at the store that would have been 
my first choice. This is a place that 
specializes in Mac products, sells every¬ 
thing at a 20 percent discount off retail 
and docs so well that the owner just 
moved into a larger space and acquired 
an Apple dealership. 

Why the difference? And what is it 
about the Mac marker that sometimes 
causes people to dump Mac software? 
One suggestion I heard recently is that 
Mac owners are usually individuals, nor 
companies, and arc much mure price 
sensitive than IBM owners. Certainly, 
off-price distributors and dealers seem to 


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market. 1 sympathize, but also disagree. 

Tm a bit of a fanatic about the Mac 
interface and what we call in our press 
material "the Mac ethos,” I believe that 
people designing software tor the Mac 
should take advantage of its great capa¬ 
bilities and create software that literally 
could not exist on other machines. Some 
people are doing this now and Fd like to 
sec more, nor less. Forget the money, 
give us that sexy software! Besides, sex 
always sells, 

TRADE SHOW FEVER 

I promise to stop talking about trade 
shows. Just as soon as they stop crop¬ 
ping up and providing useful informa¬ 
tion. The latest one that I attended was 
the Office Automation Show in I kms- 
ton. It was a lot smaller and quieter than 
the Mac expos or COMDEX. It rook 
place at Astro Hall, a small convention 
center sandwiched between the Astro¬ 
dome and AstroWorld amusement park. 
Most of the flour space was taken up by 
enormous booths from IBM, Hewlett 
Packard, Apple, Honeywell and Xerox. 

The people who filtered through the 
show all wore suits and tended to be 
corporate decision-makers looking for 



merit costs. Dealers who can move IBM 
or even Atari software see Mac products 
gathering dust and eventually phase 
them out entirely. 

1 was wasting time waiting for a movie 
recently and 1 walked into a Computer¬ 
Land store to look for a piece of software 
I needed. Granted, ComputerLand 
would not have been one of my top ten 
choices if I had set nut specifically on a 
software hunt, but l \v;is on foot in San 
Francisco and it was there. 

I thought I might get lucky when 1 
saw a Mac Plus on display in the front of 
the store, but as I checked out all the 
software displays on the walls 1 found 
one Apple II rack and about nine for 
IBM. No Mac rack. After walking 
around a while I found a stand-up dis¬ 
play rack in the back with a hundred 
boxes of Mac Project and a handful of 
each of the other Apple Mae Programs. 
Ever faithful, 1 approached a salesman 
and asked if he had Smartcom II. He gave 
me a sad smile and said I had found all 
the Mac products, although they did 
have rhe Microsoft line and jazz — but 
jazz was out of stock. 

I figured I got what I deserved and 
left, hut I did need a copy oi Smartcom II 
and I had another hour to kill, so f 
walked about a mile to a specialist soft¬ 
ware store I had driven by several times. 
Fortunately the walk itself was fun and 
beneficial, because the store was not 



be successful where others are nor. 

Maybe another reason is that a lot of 
early Mac buyers got burned with had or 
late software and are more selective in 
their buying. Or maybe Mac people 
don’t use as much software as IBM 
owners. It could also be that the market 
just isn’t ns big as it should be. How do 
you sell more Mac software? Sell more 
Macs! 

Whatever the reason(s), comparatively 
slow sales of Mac software have put a lut 
of pressure on small and large develop¬ 
ers, and may lead to a nasty 1 trend. I have 
to sympathize with software companies 
that work hard to provide IBM versions 
of their Mac software because there is so 
much more money to be made in the PC 


new systems to improve the efficiency of 
their departments or companies* 

The only Mac products at the show 
were those displayed at the Apple booth. 
For rhe most part, these were iv old n 
programs or had already been shown or 
announced at the Mac expo in February: 
multiuser Onmis 3;Mat$em*e from Infos- 
phere, running on an AST 4000; Mkro- 
phone, PatjcA takcr, Word, Excel , and jazz f 
etc. and, of course, the whole contingent 
of Apple products. 

Still, the show did have two items of 
significance lor Mac owners. The first 
was simply Apple’s presence at the show. 
Not only was it important for them to be 
there alongside IBM and the others, but 
the Apple booth carried rite heaviest 


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traffic throughout rhc show. And Apple 
xer up a large hands-on section and gave 
desktop publishing workshops chat were 
nearly always filled. 

By its very presence, Apple made a 
dear statement that it intends the Mac 
and Mac Plus to have a major impact in 
the areas targeted for a heavy marketing 
push this year: desktop publishing, 
“desktop communications" (networking 
applications) and business productivity, 
a catch-all category for power tools like 
Excel and Jazz. Perhaps the Mac marker 
will explode this year and make life easier 
for developers, publishers, distributors 
and dealers. 

The second item that received quite a 
lor of attention, was the Xerox 6805 
workstation, essentially unrelated, yet es¬ 
sentially related to the Mac, The 6805 
incorporates much of the graphic desk¬ 
top and windowing environment origi¬ 
nated at Xerox, but seen first in the mass 
market on Macintosh, Unlike the Mac, 
the 6805 lias a large screen display, a 
three -button mouse and the ability to run 
several operating systems, including 
(s u rpri sc) M S -1X>S, 

I noticed two major differences be¬ 
tween the 6HO5 and the Mae. The 6805 
screen was large enough to display a full 
page in actual size which made it much 
easier to visualize the final document and 
place things properly in their relation¬ 
ship to one another, But the layout 
process took a for longer on the 6805 
than it would have done on the Mac, and 
was infinitely move complicated. Every 
step seemed to require a return to one of 
many control windows, where font styles 
were adjusted or precise measurements 
entered. It rook the demonstrator, pre¬ 
sumably adept at the software, seven 
attempts to place a graphic properly, and 
the graphic itself never did appear on 
screen after 15 minutes' work — just a 
hox where the graphic would be placed. 

Newcomers touching the Mac for the 
first time at Apple's hands-on booth 
were generating finished publications in 
the same amount of time. Nevertheless, 
the 6805 is an impressive piece of equip¬ 
ment and an indication that more Mae- 
like office systems are on the way* And 
that Apple Isn't the only computer com¬ 
pany to notice the potential of personal 
publishing. 

Speaking of desktop publishing, if you 
want to see what a Mac can really do, try 
to get a look at a copy of a poster that 
Aldus Corporation, the company that 
produces PrtfflMaka\ just sent out to 
announce a move to new headquarters. 
Created with PageMaker, Mac Write, 
MacPainti the LaserWriter and digitized 
images, it T s a stunning piece of work.i^ 


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i, I'm a software developer. 

I"m also a writer. A while back, 1 
was only a writer, bur times have 
changed. Now Fm both. So this piece is 
about the color of grass, from both sides. 
And schizoprcnia. 

For example: As a writer and Macin¬ 
tosh user, I hate copy protection. Even - 
body hates copy protection. I’ve railed 
against copy protection, just like all good 
computer columnists are supposed m 
rail. 

As a fledgling developer, 1 lie in bed 
and think ”God! If we don’t copy protecr 
it, people will steal it! We won’t make 
any money! We won't make ns much 
money, anyway! IVe slaved away on this 
project for months, and people mav steal 

itr 

I’m discovering rhis: it's easy to talk 
about someone cTse's pocket hook. When 
things get closer to home, they’re.*, 
well.., closer to home. 

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Our solution was serial numbers, artfully 
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TVs and Macintoshes have serial num¬ 
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packaging. And creating advertisements 
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noticed. Blonds in Sweden know the 
feeling. Honesty in ads is also a good 
thing; unusual, but a good thing none¬ 


theless. You won't get there if you don't 
rry. 

Hopefully, the software project began 
life as a spreadsheet. Hopefully, the 
spreadsheet was conservative, but hinted 
ar possible profits. Hopefully, you didn't 
forget any costs. 

These days, software projects often 
receive “outside funding.” In other 
words, investors put up money, m hopes 
of getting ir — and more — back. So add 
“keeping investors happy" to the above. 
Things are becoming complicated. 

Writers have it easier. Write a lousy 
column or article and it's no big deal. 
Maybe nobody prints it. Or it gets 
printed, bur doesn’t get read. At the 
worst, it's inaccurate or disliked. Or 
both* Life goes on. If you make a 
complete fool of yourself so it goes. 
What the hell? 

With software, vou have the chance to 
not only look stupid, hut make entire 
companies look snip id. And squander 
lots of money in the process; not just 
your money, but other people's money. 
People who were counting on you. Peo¬ 
ple who trusted you with their money. 

Pass the Rolaids. 

Then there's getting along with every¬ 
one. Or, as I like to say: human interface 
and interaction considerations. Another 
tough one. Cutting along means consid¬ 
eration. Tact. Even diplomacy, for chris- 
sakes! 

It's enough to make your skin crawl. 
Tact? Writers aren't supposed to be 
tactful! Writers aren’t supposed to “get 
along” with other people! Why do you 
think we sit alone in little rooms even- 
day? Because Reagan doesn't need an¬ 
other Mideast envoy? 

(The only tactful writer I know is 
l Inward Katz. But Howard's primarily a 
renowned Canadian microcomputer pio¬ 
neer, not a writer, so he doesn't count.) 


ft y 


What did we forget? Oh yes, the 
program! Pesky things. Easy to overtook 
in the hubbub of marketing. 

Programs, unfortunately, require pro¬ 
grammers. A good programmer is wor¬ 
thy of his or her hire, and usually knows 
it. Add that to “up-front” expenses. 

Books on programming often talk 
about “data abstraction”: isolating your¬ 
self from low-level tasks, seeing the big 
picture, the big algorithm. In other 
words, somehow getting from 
“Wouldn't it be a good idea if..,'' to an 
actual program. 

In a perfect world that's just how it 
works: Good ideas become trained elec¬ 
trons, racing through little chips and 
wires. Clumps of magnetized particles 
somehow become “value” — value for 
many people, not just yourself 

Value: what a concept* And, you 
know, it's possible for a schlocky pro¬ 
gram to have great value. And vice-versa: 
it's possible to create a great program 
that nobody wants or needs. It's been 
done. 

Ideally, real people talk to real pro¬ 
grammers and the result is a real pro¬ 
gram that meets real people's needs. 

Even the best programmers, though, 
have nasty habits. They like to know' 
what you want* Exactly. Not “sort of 1 or 
“kind of like rhis but different,” but 
exactly. 

Programmer: “Four pixels? Two pix¬ 
els? What should the button say? l OK'? 
'Continue'? What?” 

You: “Arc there any other choices?” 

Programmer: "Yeah, About a million. 
What do you want?” 

“Uh...” ‘ 

Finally, it all comes down to the 
program and the terrible truth of pro¬ 
gramming: If it doesn't work, it doesn’t 
work. 

Again, writers have it easier. If a 
column contains a few “clunker” sen¬ 
tences or paragraphs, it's no big deal. An 
awkward transition? A mixed metaphor? 
A silly simile? Don't sweat ir! 

But foul up one tiny, insignificant 
pointer to some nondescript array and 
BOOM! The program begins to merrily 
munch through your screen buffer, hor¬ 
rible rasping noises spew from the ma¬ 
chine, and the familiar “ID=2” appears 
on everyone’s favorite dialog. 

Is that fair? 

No. 

But those are alligator tears. Software 
development is more tun than street 
repair, being a policeman, driving a cab, 
pumping gas, or teaching anything to 
high school students. 

And you might make a buck. 

But it’s easier to be a writer. £3 



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List Price. $59 95, PubHsbed by Symmetry 
Software, 761 East University Dr, Mesa, AZ 
85203 , (602) 844 2199, (800) 624 2485 , 

Creating outlines is definitely a love-hate 
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For those who love it, outlining is a crucial 
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Acta has an enormous advantage over 
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word processor. 

Those comfortable with ThinkTank will 
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is one mena with ell commands, including 
the commands for creating super- and sub¬ 
heads. These are redundant, though, be¬ 
cause the mouse is used to move headings 
to the left or right, designating each level 
relative to its superior heading, Each head^ 
ing can have as much text as desired, 
emulating the windows command in Think- 


MACBASE m 

List Price: $149 Published by Eqtron Corp., 
330 Bay St.. Sirife 1115, Toronto, Ontario 
M5H 2S8, Canada. (800) 622-2273, (416) 
361-5002. Reeuires 512K+. version 1,0 
not HFS-eompat/bfe, new HFS-compaiible 
version expected. 

MacBase is yet another entry in the 
relational database sweepstakes, It has 
some really outstanding features — and 
some really frustrating features. 



Form design is the first step in creating a 
MacBase database. The form is designed 
using icon-selected tools. Unfortunately, 




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Tank, and the text can be hidden, or col¬ 
lapsed, under the first line, which then 
becomes a title for the section. An arrow 
can be activated in the heading indicating 
that there s something beneath the title, A 
heading can also contain a graphic element 
pasted in through the Clipboard, 

The program's non-case sensitive Search 
command will find eny word that contains 
the search string. The sort command allows 
either alphabetic or numeric sorts, in either 
ascending or descending order. 

A particularly useful feature is that each 
heading, or family of headings, can have its 
own font, font size and style. The font 
selection is limited to eight specific faces 
(standard Mac stuff, including LaserWriter 
fonts), in various styles (bold, outline, italic 
etc.) and sizes up to 24 points, This is still 
an important capability, allowing related 
subjects to have the-r own identifying font. 

Files can be saved under the Acta format , 
as MacWrite files and as generic text files. 
Header labels can be omitted, or you can 
specify numbered or lettered labels. You 
can create an outline while in Mac Write, 
save it to disk, and then immediately open 


the procedure is both tedious and impre¬ 
cise. Exact positioning of fields and labels 
requires a lot of effort, and even then, it 
sometimes proves impossible. Field labels 
and contents areas must be prepared sepa¬ 
rately. a real time-waster. However, users 
can create calculated fields easily. And 
while any font can be used anywhere in a 
form, only its 12-point size is available. 
Larger or smaller font sizes can appear in 
imported MacPaint graphics, but that’s 
hardly a solution. This shortcoming is one 
of MacRase's greatest weaknesses 

Data entry is straightforward, and is often 
aided by the last data remaining as default 
data, when a new form is opened for entry. 
Forms can be merged to other forms and 
related to other forms. The relational as¬ 
pects of this database resemble forms 
within forms. Clicking on a special icon on a 
related form will bring up the linked form. 
This nesting of forms works well, allowing 
relational power without great complexity. 
The user is not required to know a great 
deal about file structure or relational con¬ 
structs. Forms can be nested as deeply as 
desired- 

Data entry gets slow as databases gel 
large, since each field is treated as a key 
field, and each record is sorted on ail fields 


it from within the program. This simple 
capability adds significantly to Acta's use¬ 
fulness. 

One serious flaw is the inability to print 
files from within Acfa. The file must be 
saved to disk, and then opened within a 
word processor or text editor in order to 
print it. 

Outline processing software has had a 
somewhat hard time gaining wide accep¬ 
tance in the computer community, Acta 
makes the process immediate, practical 
and painless If you can! live without Think- 
Tank, or have been unhappy with it, act on 
Acta, — DB 



as soon as it is entered. Entering data into 
a fairly large database on a floppy-based 
system is going to take considerable time 
All this sorting and indexing does have its 
payback, though in quick searches. There 
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application involves much using and little 
entry. MacBase is a good choice. 

Searches use a specially filled out data 
entry form. Just type what is desired into 
each field. There are some fairly severe 
limitations. AND and OR operators can't be 
used, and simple bounded searches often 
require two steps. For example, to find all 
managers between the ages of 20 and 30 
in a personnel database, you must first 
search for all managers under 30, and then 
for all over 20, 

Reports are created by designing yet 
another form and merging it with the mas¬ 
ter form. Thus, users are faced with the 
same problems that had to be coped with in 
the initial form design—only 12-point type 
is available and it is very hard to position 
fields precisely. 

MacBase is very good at a very specific 
range of applications. If your application's 
needs fit. MacBase is excellent. So to be 
sure to at least check out MacBase when 
database shopping. —SB 


32MACU5ER JULY 1986 







































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L/sf Price: $49,9 5. Pubfisfied by Boston 
Software Pub/ishers, 1260 Boyiston St,, 
Boston . MA 02215, f617j 267-4747, 

One of the messiest and dirtiest of alf 
writing chores ■$ creating an index The 
thought of doing one may wet! be the 
reason I've never completed a book manu¬ 
script, Just the thought of having to do one, 
or paying those strange people known as 
indexers to do one, gives me the chills. 

Now I have one fewer excuse for not 
finishing that manuscript Maclndexer will 
do most of the dirty work in creating an 
index. It won't do the creative stuff* the 
intelligent selecting of what goes in and 
what doesn’t, and it won t do the subievel 
items that are so important to the great 
index. But it will do the really dirty stuff — 
the looking at every word of every page to 
see jf you want it in or out, You no longer 
have to sit there with index cards and hope 
that you don’t write down loo many page 
numbers wrong. 

Maclndexer is a simple standalone appli¬ 
cation, It works best on reasonably small 
chunks of material at a time, say a chapter 
or so, That's not a problem, since the index 
fragments created are easily merged with 
the program's Merge command. However 
since Maclndexer has a lot of work to do* 
reading each word, deciding if it is in or out, 


MACQWERTY UU 

List Price: $35. Published by Paragon 
Courseware, 4954 5urt Valley Rd ., Del Mar r 
CA 92014. (619) 4811477. 

MacQwerty, as you might surmise from 
its name, is a keyboard utility package. If 
you often type < when you really want a 
period, or > instead of a comma, one of the 
programs in this set can reconfigure your 
keyboard to type a comma when you type 
what the keycap says is >. Indeed, users 
can assign any character to any key 

Custom keyboard arrangements, which 
can be as limited as changing just one or 
two keys, or a full-scale keyboard reconfi¬ 
guration, are created using the Reconfigure 
program. This program looks to a previously 
created text file in a specific format. Users 
create that file using any word processor or 
editor. The only requirements are that the 
simple format be followed exactly and that 
the file be saved as “Text Only." 

The package also comes with two preset 
configuration programs. The first is called 
Standard, and it produces the usual qwerty 
arrangement of the actual keyboard. It is 



and, if it's in, listing it and its location to 
the actual index file, it can be a bit slow. No 
matter how slow it actually runs though* it 
works many limes faster (and at least as 
accurately) as any human indexer. 

Maclndexer works with formatted and 
text-only MacWfite and Word files. It works 
in a slightly different way in each program, 
Since Word can have multiple files showing 
on its desktop all the time, Macindexers 
keyword list (the document it uses to actu¬ 
ally index) exists as a second window. It can 
be edited simply by clicking in it to make it 
active. MacWr/fe, on the other hand, can 
only have one document open at a time, To 
use Maclndexer with it. users install a 
special desk accessory (called Keywords, 
not surprisingly) and choose It when they 
need to edit the keywords list. The simplest 
way to use Mac/ndexer is just to tell it to 
index a document. It will then create a 


listing of every word in that document. 
While it is working it can, and you should 
always let it T filter out what it calls 
"noisewords/ 1 words like "a,” “the" and 
"and/ Users can edit the noiseword list. 
Add as much to this file as you can, since 
the file as it comes is rather scanty. The 
larger this file, the faster the indexing wilt 
go. 

After the basic index is created, it must 
be edited to remove unnecessary words. 
The place to edit an Index is in the keyword 
list* Editing follows normal Mac conven¬ 
tions and is very easy to do. 

One of the true horrors of manual index¬ 
ing is a repagination of the manuscript late 
in the game. Possibly a section has to be 
addeo* or cut, in the worst ease, right at the 
beginning. Before Maclndexer * that meant 
checking all the page numbers again, espe¬ 
cially in those cases where a half a page of 
material was added, which left some page 
numbers correct and some wrong. Now, 
simply select Renumber from the Index 
menu, respond to the dialog box. and sit 
back and smile. 

Maclndexer will also automatically gener¬ 
ate word frequency counts. That feature will 
show you if you tend to overuse certain 
words, and which words they are Mae/n- 
dexer is a small but very valuable program 
that will fit well into any writer's software 
library. I guess this means my book will be 
out Real Soon Now. — SB 


vital to have this configuration available, so 
that the keyboard can always (and quickly) 
be reset to 'normal." 

The other configuration supplied is the 
Dvorak keyboard (pronounced like our anti- 
editor's name). The original qwerty arrange¬ 
ment was actually designed to slow typists 
down, so that the physical mechanisms of 
the first typewriters could keep up with 
them and not jam. The very inefficient 
qwerty keyboard became standard, and has 
remained the standard, in spite of the fact 
that we now type on ultra-quick nonjamma- 
ble word processors. Professor Auguste 
Dvorak* a teacher in Washington state, 
devised a much more efficient keyboard 
arrangement in the late 1930‘s. Typists 
using machines with his keyboard have 
consistently, and by wide margins, won 
major typing speed contests. 

The Dvorak keyboard is both easier to 
learn (by at least an order of magnitude) 
than qwerty, and much easier once mas¬ 
tered. Far less effort is spent and most 
users report far fewer errors. 

MacQwerty makes it easy to install the 
Dvorak key arrangement in your machine. 
The disk contains a program colled Dvorak. 


Double click to run it. It will reconfigure the 
keyboard and return you to the desktop. The 
Dvorak arrangement will remain active until 
the Mac is rebooted. 

AM three programs are simple, do exactly 
what they claim to, are not copy protected 
and belong in every writer's utility kit. One 


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The best way to use these toots is to simply 
move them to your start-up disks They're 
small* with Reconfigure (at 8K) being the 
largest, while Standard takes up 3K, and 
Dvorak a mere 2K, — 58 


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ORBITER UtU 

Ltst Price . $49.95. Published by Spectrum 
HoioByte . Inc., 1050 Walnut Street , Surte 
325, Sander CO S03D2 (303j 443-0191 

tn the wake of the space shuttle Chal¬ 
lenger tragedy, a new awareness of the 
space program has arisen, one that deals 
with the purpose of space exploration, and 
with understanding the technology that is 
being used for the task, Orbiter is a person- 
al window into the world of space that takes 
you on a voyage in one of the most capable 
space vehicles, the space shuttle, 

Odder succeeds as a game, but it excels 


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as a simulation. This is one heck of a 
program. A total of 16 different missions 
can be attempted, including deploying a 
space telescope, retrieving a satellite, 
docking with a space station or even build¬ 
ing a space station. The astronaut can 
either fly the ship manually (a skill that 
requires much practice), or have the on¬ 
board computer make most of the crucial 
decisions. Start out using the on-board 
computer, or you'll surely meet with frustra¬ 
tion before long. When first playing Orbiter, 
only specific parts of a mission can be 
played: for the novice, getting familiar with 
the take off routine (when not in auto- 
computer mode) can constitute a success* 
ful mission. Games can be saved to disk, so 
missions can be resumed at any time. 
The main program screen is divided into 
four quadrants. Since there are more con¬ 
trol panels than there is screen space, 
specific modules are summoned and made 
active as they're needed, 

A full front window view is available, but 
the animation in this screen is less than 
silky smooth. It does serve its purpose, 
though, by adding to the realism of the 
simulation. There’s also an aft view (from 


the payload area) that’s active when the bay 
doors are open The status CRTs are more 
useful for determining how to fly the ship, 
as they show orientation with respect to 
Earth, and vital statistics, such as velocity, 
altitude, ship orientation and other vital 
data There's a remote manipulator arm, a 
manned maneuvering unit (for venturing 
outside the craft), and weapons systems 
(for knocking out Soviet satellites?), 

Orbiter is not copy protected, and with 
good reason: the documentation is crucial 
in order to fly this bird. Included with the 
manual is a paper-cutout space shuttle, 
provided to clarify the differences between 
different types of manuvering orientation. 
The documentation is very good, explaining 
all of the on-board screens and controls 
(and there are a lot of them!),as well as 
explaining shuttle jargon. A special note: 
the first 10.000 program boxes have a real 
hologram pasted on them! 

Mastering Orbirer will prove to be a chal¬ 
lenge for even the most capable gamers 
Successfully completing a mission in Orbit¬ 
er doesn't mean that you’re ready to fly the 
real thing; but it is the closest that most of 
us will come to sitting in that cabin, — D6 


RAGS TO RICHES 
INVENTORY UiU 

List Price . $199.95. Published by Chang 
Labs , 5300 Stevens Creek Boulevard , San 
Jose, CA 95129. (408) 246-8020. Re¬ 
quires 512K+ and printer. 


Rags to R/cbes is an accounting series 
with five modules: General Ledger , Ac¬ 
counts Payable. Accounts Receivable, Pro- 
fessrona/ 77me Bitting , and. now. Inventory , 
AH five modules are easy to use, make 
excellent use of the Mac interface and work 
with one another to provide a complete 
small business accounting system. 

While the other four modules are essen¬ 
tially used by accountants in a company to 
maintain a set of books. Inventory is intend¬ 
ed to be used as a point of purchase tool by 
sales people in retail or wholesale environ¬ 


ments, It tracks sales, purchases and other 
inventory movements through the genera¬ 
tion of tickets. These tickets can be primed 
individually and used as sales receipts. 

Inventory can track sales by item, by 
department, by salesperson or by date. Wot 
only does it record the number of items 
received, sold and on-hand, but it can be a 
valuable tool for determining how well a 
product is selling. A wide variety of reports 
are included that make it simple to audit 
the movement of stock. 

Inventory operates around several inter¬ 
related windows. Double clicking on an 
item in one window brings up the related 
item in another window. For instance, to 
enter the sale of a Mac Plus on a new 
ticket, simply bring the Items window up 
and double click on Mac Plus, The new 
ticket will automatically record the sale and 
calculate tax. as well as deducting the item 
sold from inventory, 

AN of the Rags to Riches modules can be 


used individually or integrated into a com¬ 
plete system, inventory can be set up by 
pulling In data already in the Ledger mod¬ 
ule. and can even report automatically to 
the Ledger module. 

Rags to Riches is an excellent account¬ 
ing system for small companies who don't 
have huge numbers of accounts and want 
ease of use. R to R Inventory is among the 
best of the five modules in Its operation 
and usefulness,—MOW 


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BRIMSTONE UU 

List Pricer $39 95 Published by Synapse / 
Broderbund, 17 Paul Drive , San Rafael. CA 
94903-2101 , (415J 479-1170 


Read any good games lately? If not, curl 
up in front of your Mac with Brimstone, an 
interactive Arthurian novel that follows the 
exploits of Sir Gawain as he journeys down 
to the bottom of Ulro (which bears a remark¬ 
able resemblance to Dante’s vision of Hell) 
and, hopefully, returns a better person for 
the experience 

Brimstone is packaged with a hardcover 
book that explains the background of the 


scenario and its characters and lists the 
rules of play Unfortunately, the fiction part 
of the book (about three-quarters) is down¬ 
right awful, written in a pseudo-diary style 
that offers little advancement of the Brim¬ 
stone plot, It seems to be more of a self- 
indulgence by game author James Paul, 
whose text is far better in the actual pro¬ 
gram. It also, by the way, serves as copy¬ 
protection, with the Mac asking you for the 
' third word in the fourth fine on page 31" 
(this changes every time) to unlock the 
program 

Once you've plodded through the book, 
the real fun begins. The story, as explained 
in the typical third-person perspective often 
seen in non-electronic novels, is simple: Sir 


Gawain falls asieep in his chamber, dream¬ 
ing of a strange castle on a hill. There, he 
finds several challenges, but if all goes 
according to Ihe story, he is tricked by the 
witch Morgan le Fay into taking King Ar¬ 
thur's chair and thereby committing trea¬ 
son, Condemned to a tiny cell in the middle 
of Ulro, he must find a way to escape from 
jaif — and from Ulro itself. 

The storyline is good, offering a mental 
workout without the danger of puzzle over¬ 
load. Generally, the answers are always 
right there for those who look for them, yet 
youTI still have enough of a mental chal¬ 
lenge to feel satisfied (and very smart) after 
figuring out the solution to a problem. 

The action is explained on-screen in the 


34 MAC U SER JULV 19 86 














































Gold CollarWorker 







Photographed by Brian Thompson at the law library of 
Lang, Michener, Toronto, Ontario. 


Name: Bruce Lewis. 

Profession: Managing partner, major Canadian law 
firm. 

Hobby: Crafting reproduction William and Mary 
furniture. 

Work style: Perfectionist. Demands 100% accuracy, 
superior quality and appearance in every 
legal document. 

Computer of choice: Macintosh™ with a 

LaserWriter. Placed 65 Macintosh com¬ 
puters on the desks of both lawyers and staff. 
Networked them to share 9 LaserWriters. 
Plans to buy 100 more Apple computers this 
year. 

Favorite software: Document Modeler™, a 
powerful expert system toolbox for 
documents. It enables Bruce to “clone” his 
12 years of legal experience to assist other 
lawyers and staff. And it saves time. 

First application: Bruce constructed a model of the 
dozen or so letters usually required for real 
estate transactions. The model prompts a 
secretary, step-by-step, to input every 
relevant particular of a transaction and then 
automatically performs any calculations, 
assembles the appropriate clauses and 
produces impeccable letters customized to 
the client’s individual needs, precisely as 
Bruce specified. Result: a 35 minute job 
reduced to 10 minutes. 

Next application: More document models, this 
time for more complex documents. 

Bruce Lewis. One of a new breed of “gold collar 
workers”* who is boosting professional and 
managerial productivity with advanced knowledge- 
management tools. 

Become a gold collar worker. Contact the Model 
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third person, but players are spoken to by 
the program in the first person. For exam¬ 
ple. the computer might ask you to identify 
yourself. "I am Gawatn." you'd type in. The 
story would progress with, M My name is Sir 
Gawain,* said the knight with a flourish." 1 
It's a little schizophrenic, but you'll get 
used to it. 

To communicate with the program, play- 
ers type in full sentence commands via the 
keyboard (no menu shortcuts here, folks). 
To communicate with a person, you have to 
type the person s name and then use quota¬ 
tion marks to mark what they actually say. 
And the program punishes those who in¬ 
fringe on the sentence parser's limits by 
rebuking Sir Gawain sharply, then instruct¬ 
ing him in proper communication. 


NOTEPRO Utt 

List Price; $59.95. Published by Learning 
Skills , Inc ., PO Box 8038. Reno. NV 89507. 
(702) 825*9537. 

Some students are just good note-takers 
and users, but some never manage to get 
more than useless scribbles. Since taking 
and using notes is a vital part of the 
learning process, mastering the art of tak¬ 
ing and using notes should improve test 
scores and overall performance. 

And notetaking is not merely a school 



MACFORTH, Level 

Two Utt 

List Price; $249. Published by Creative 
Solutions . 4702 Randolph Road , RockwNe. 
MD 20852. (301) 984-0262 , 

MacFORTH is the most complete and 
professional Forth for the Macintosh, It was 
released more than two years ago and has 
been thoroughly debugged and refined. 

Forth is conceptually and functionally 
different from most languages: its internal 
structure is visible, accessible and easy to 
customize. A danger of this freedom is that 
too much time will be spent tweaking the 
system, and too little programming. That 
being said, an experienced Forth program¬ 
mer can crank out good code very quickly: a 
beginner can do simple tasks much faster 
than in other languages, but will be lost 
putting together anything complex, 

MacFGRTHs treatment of the MacTool- 


A nice touch is that when you Save or 
Restore the game in progress (saves are 



called 'bookmarks" by the program} you'll 
see a complete list of Gawains achieve- 


activity. It is as vital, if not more important, 
in the business world. Those well-orga¬ 
nized, fast-moving young executives didn't 
get on the fast track without lots of notes to 
help them along. 

NotePro is a five-part educational pro¬ 
gram that will not teach you how to take 
notes, nor will it do magical things with your 
notes. It mH teach you to make the most of 
any notes you do take, and. if you follow its 
directions, will make a better test taker of 
you 

The nicely designed package has several 
unique features. Each of the five sections 
consists of two major portions. The first is a 
self-running explanation of what that sec¬ 
tion does and how you should use it. The 
other portion is where you actually do your 
work. Users can always run the demos 
again and see the clear directions. While 
that feature obviates the need for printed 
documentation, the publisher has not stint¬ 
ed on the manual in any way. It is both 
complete and unusually informative. The 
manual makes it clear that this program is 
not a panacea, that good and effective use 


box is the best that I have seen. The ROM 
routines are pre-digested: a new user can 
create a window with four words of code. 
Experienced users have full access to de¬ 
tails, but novices aren't burdened with un¬ 
necessary trivia. 

MacFORTH programs have a fixed mini¬ 
mum size of about 20K, too large for DA'S; 
code size grows very slowly from that mini¬ 
mum. however, so complex programs are 
relatively compact. The language is fast 
compared to Pascal or BASIC, but slower 
than C A non-standard assembler is provid¬ 
ed. Standalone applications cannot be pro¬ 
duced with Level Two: a $250 upgrade to 
Level Three is required for that, although 
there are no further licensing requirements 
for commercial sale. 

Forth is not easy to learn, but MacFORTH 
makes the process as rapid and pleasant 
as possible. An excellent introductory text 
and computer-aided tutorial guide learners 
through the basics. Documentation is ex¬ 
tensive and excellent An active special 


ments so far. On the other hand, restoring a 
saved game involves going through the 
complete opening sequence again, which is 
a bit sloppy on the part of the programmers. 
Also, instead of just scrolling when the text 
is too long to fit on a single screen, the 
program asks players to press a key to 
continue. That would be fine — except, the 
key pressed is still saved in the buffer, 
adding it on to whatever you'll want to type 
the next time you give a command 
Still. Brimstone is a lot of fun, and its 
schizophrenia works — players (or should 
we say, readers) get the impression that 
they re actually reading a novel, with the 
added bonus of participating in the action 
as it goes along, It was a grand effort, and 
this time, it paid off. — TFH 


of your notes requires hard work. And it 
then tells you exactly what to do 

The first section of the program is called 
' Classnotes." In this step users enter notes 
and. at the same time, restructure and 
reformat them. The program will suggest, 
based on what's entered, how much time 
should be allotted to each batch of notes. 

The second section, "Pronotes,'' encour¬ 
ages and abets the restructuring of Class- 
notes into an outline format. The third 
section, "Speedreview/' reviews previous 
work, highlighting individual items in turn. 
There are three speed ranges: users should 
start slowly and work up to the fastest. 

The fourth section, 'Speedcharts, 1 helps 
users set up simple fact charts based on 
the facts and ideas in their notes. The 
comparison and contrast of ideas and facts 
will often clear up ambiguous points in the 
notes. 

The final section, Testsimulator/' quiz¬ 
zes users, at varying speeds, on the materi¬ 
al in the Speed charts. The methods taught 
here should enable anyone to make optimal 
use of their notes, — SB 


interest group (SIG) on CompuServe and a 
national users' group provide quick answers 
to questions, and a good library of tested 
routines The publishers have shown great 
attention to upgrading the product and 
maintaining compatibly as the Mac 
evolves. Versions of the language for the 
Amiga and Atari will be largely source- 
compatible 

MacFORTH is suitable for serious pro¬ 
gramming. and an elegant and fun environ¬ 
ment for hacking — Nick Karp 



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With one Hayes Transet 1000 
you can do three things at once 



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Print 


You can keep working While receiving electronic 

with your computer. messages from your modem. 




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printing another fob. 



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We call it triple tasking ©. Transet 
1000 helps your productivity, by 
allowing you to perform three 
separate computer tasks. Simul¬ 
taneously. No more waiting for 
one task to be completed before 
you can begin another. And no 
more wasted time! 

Transet 1000 keeps working for 
you —even when your computer 
is turned off. Because it has its 
own independent memory, Transet 
10CX) can serve as an electronic 
mailbox. Your files and incoming 
messages received through your 
modem remain stored overnight, 


or whenever you J re away from the 
office. When you return, you can 
print out your mail without turn¬ 
ing your PC on. Or, read it on 
your PC screen and print out only 
selected messages. You can even 
read your mail from any remote 
PC or terminal with a modem. 

Before now, you would'have had 
to buy several add-on devices to do 

Hawes 

Say yes to the future 


all this. Arid that could be costly 
But no more.Transet 1000 does 
it all — for a surprisingly low price. 
It costs only $399"' for the 128K 
model, which stores up to 90 pages. 
And only $549" for the 512K version, 
with up to 360 pages of storage. 

So wait no more. If you need this 
flexibility in your operation, you 
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POWER COMPUTING 


SEE MAC RUN 


Save time and effort 


with Tempo, an 
autopilot for the 
Macintosh . 


by Max Whitby 


IF HUMAN BEINGS ARE CREA- 
nires that rap keyboards and push 
mice around a desk, then Tempo is a 
tame monkey with a perfect memo¬ 
ry. It can record anything from a 
simple word being typed in Aine- 
Writc to a complex sequence of 
mouse movements in MacPaint. 
Then it can repeat the performance 
on demand, flawlessly and at high 
speed. Tempo is also intelligent, as it 
has rite power to look at what it is 
doing and respond accordingly. 

This ability to record and play 
back a sequence of Macintosh com¬ 
mands offers three benefits. First, 
Tempo can save time by providing a 
quick shortcut for repetitive actions 
in any application. For example, in 
Alae Write you can assign die name 
of each character in your best-selling 
novel (or tongue-twisting product in 
your company report) to a single 
command key. When you need to 
type the name, it can be entered with 
a single keystroke (and the command 
key) — all the characters appear just 
as if you had typed them out in full. 
In MncWritc, you can assign differ¬ 
ent combinations of font and point 
sizes to a single key* so that switch¬ 
ing between different typefaces is 
greatly speeded up. The possibilities 
are limited only by your imagination 
— any sequence of mouse and key¬ 
board activity can be recorded. 

The second benefit of Tempo is 
that it provides a means of recording 
complex operations in a form that 
can be used by people with little 


previous experience of a particular 
program. For example, a single key¬ 
stroke can convert a hlmkMaclVritc 
document into a standard piece of 
stationery, complete with letterhead 
and dare; or a spreadsheet in Jazz 
can be created and formatted, much 
like the macro facility offered by 
Excel. This means that someone who 
is expert at a particular Macintosh 
application can use Tempo to record 
a sequence of difficult commands for 
colleagues to use. 

Third, Tempo has buried within it 
the power to make the Macintosh do 
some quite extraordinary things. 
Tempo can be left to run the Macin¬ 
tosh unattended — automatically 
performing a specified series of time- 
consuming tasks (for example, recal¬ 
culating a large accounts file, or 
generating a sequence of three-di¬ 
mensional animations) without any 
human intervention. It can be used 
with a communications program to 
keep trying a busy number until the 
line is free. It can even wait until the 
early hours of the morning, tele¬ 
phone Japan for the dosing stock 
market prices, paste the results into a 
spreadsheet and analyze the data, 
draw a graph and then wake you up 
with a CoHcatWare medley! 

UP TEMPO! 

The package arrives as an applica¬ 
tion sporting an icon that looks like 
a Macintosh in heaven. This applica¬ 
tion automatically installs Tempo into 
any chosen System file where it ap- 


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pears as a new choice in the Apple 
menu. Although Tempo looks and 
behaves much like a regular desk 
accessory it is actually very different. 
For starters, it fattens a System file by 
a hefty 60 K. Those without a hard 
disk, and who have not yet upgraded 
to Apple’s new 800K floppy internal 
drive, may find themselves pushed 
for space. Another difference is that 
Tempo is not compatible with the 
Font/DA Mover. It must be moved 
into and out of systems using its 
own installation program. 

Tempo can be used anywhere desk 
accessories are available. Once in¬ 
stalled, it is activated either by select¬ 
ing "Tempo" with the mouse as an 
item from the Apple menu, or by 
typing C:OMMAND-SHIFr ZERO. 
(FKEY a Old on ad os need not fear 
the loss of a valuable slot — Tempo 
seems to survive if the zero function 
key is reassigned). The first time it is 
run, it asks which drive should he 
used as the defaulr to store the 
command sequences — known as 
macros — that it learns. 

TUNING IN 

Tempo shows it is active by placing 
a el over leaf command symbol that 
appears as the rightmost item in the 
menu bar of the current application. 
Once Tempo has been invoked, it will 
remain in the main bar even if you 
quit one program and start another. 
When a new application is launched, 
the Macintosh beeps to indicate 
Tempo is still around. This ability to 
survive between trips to the Finder is 
one of Tempo's best features. It 
means that macros can be written 
that link together several different 
applications. The possibilities, arc 
mind boggling! 

To begin with, there are five active 
options in Tempo’s pull-down menu. 
As these options are selected, the 
cloverleaf symbol in the menu bar 
changes to indicate what is going 
on: “R” means a macro is currently 
being recorded; . ." (an ellipsis) 
means that recording has been sus¬ 
pended temporarily; ”E" means a 
macro is being edited; and so on. 

As these symbols change, so do 
the menu choices available, ""Start 
Recording” becomes ""Stop Record¬ 
ing," for example. Only relevant op¬ 
tions are presented at any given 



THE WRITE ANGLE 

A simple Tempo macro can be used to automatically format a blank MacWrite doc¬ 
ument to standard settings. 



Aboul MetUfrite... 


Alarm Clock 
Art Grabber^" 
Basic 

Calculator 
Chooser 
Control Panel 
□isfctnfo 
Editor 
Keij Cops 
MuMI-Scrop 
Snopshol _ 


1 Tempo 


[ Windows 

^ 1 


Start off by summoning 
Tempo from the desk ac¬ 
cessory menu. 


Star I Recording 


- A -- 

Tempo Command 

tipfhint... 

Configure... 


quit Tempo 


* Fife Edit Seanh Format Font 


TtyiT^^ 


ImugeWriter (Standard or Wide) 

Paper ®fH Letter 0 tIS Letter 

O tlS Legal Q International Fanfold 

0 Computer Paper 0 Envelope 


■D 

j Cancel ] 


firientalion; ® Tall OTall Adjusted Q Wide 
Pagination: ® Normal pages QNq break* between page* 
Reduction; ® None G 50 percent 


Then choose “Start Re¬ 
cording" from the clover- 
leaf menu, The symbol will 
change to an “R" to indi¬ 
cate that commands are 
now being recorded. 



Change the ruler, font and printing settings as desired. You could also type in some text for a 
letterhead or change the format of the document in any way you like. Tempo will remember 
everything you do, so be careful not to make any mistakes. 


* File 

Edit Search Formal 

Font Style | 

^ 1 . 1.1 

. 1 ^ i .. i. . t . 1i L i . i 

UiaiLlleU e J 

. i4 , . t . . 

E) Hi 

D 6 Uttis/lnch fHH 






Suspend Recording 
Options... 

Peal Time 


quit Tcinpo 


Once you are satisfied 
with the setting, select 
“Stop Recording*' from 
the Tempo menu. 


4 File Edit Search Format Font Style R 


i^l r^ij 


Untitled 


Saue Macro? 


Enter Key Code: 


Enter Macro Nome: 




Hold down Command key and infer other ktyCs). 


Standard paper settings 


[ Cancel ) ( Discard ] 


Tempo™ Version 1 . 0 /© 1985 , 1986 by Affinity Mlcrosystems. Ltd. 


4 

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Finally, hold down the command key and type the character that you will use to start the macro in the 
future — the numbers 1 to 9 are convenient and easy to remember. You can also give your new 
macro a name. And, if you make a mistake in the recording, you can “Discard" the macro and start 
over again. 

Tempo should now have recorded everything you’ve done. Next time you open MacWrite f the 
untitled document can be formatted to your standard settings simply by holding down the command 
hey and typing “l. 11 Sit back and watch the Macintosh taken over by a phantom operator! 


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moment, which mikes Tempo easy to 
use while cramming a great deal into 
a small space. 

FOR THE RECORD 

The basic technique for recording 
a macro could hardly be simpler. 
You simply select “Start Recording,™ 
perform the action or series of ac¬ 
tions you want to record, and then 
choose “Stop Recording.” Tempo 
presents a dialog box that is used to 
name your new macro and to assign 
it a command key equivalent. 

All combinations of the com¬ 
mand, option, shift or caps-lock keys 
can be used with any character on 
the keyboard — giving 450 possible 
macros in each application! The only 
constraint is that command key com¬ 
binations which are already used (for 
example, command-x* command- 
C and COMM AND-V for Cut, Copy 
and Paste) should be avoided. 


fine provided you can remember 
\\ f l i at csote r i c co mb i n at ion yc) u us ed! 
The second way is to select “Tempo 
Command” from the cloverlcaf 
main. This provides a dialog box 
with a library listing of all available 
macros. Macros stored on other 
disks can be imported and an editing 
feature is provided to make changes 
to an existing recorded sequence. 

Editing involves replaying a mac¬ 
ro, and then stopping it at the point 
where the modification is to be made 
— rather a tricky operation. A better- 
policy is to keep all Tempo macros 
fairly simple. This might sound like a 
limitation but in fact it is not. One 
macro can be instructed to link auto¬ 
matically to another — so there is no 
constraint on the overall complexity 
of the finished chain. By keeping 
elements short and modular, it is 
much easier to correct mistakes and 
make changes. 


PLAYBACK 

There are two ways to run a Tempo 
macro. The first is simply to type its 
command key equivalent — which is 


BRANCHING OUT 

Tempo's real intelligence lies in its 
ability to branch between macros. By 
selecting the “Options” menu item 


Tempo's cloverieaf com¬ 
mand symbol shows that 
it is installed into the ap¬ 
plication and activated. 
As you can see, there are 
five options in Tempo's 
pull-down menu. As they 
are selected, the symbol 
changes to show what is 
going on — for example, 
indicates that a mac¬ 
ro is being recorded. 


invoking 'Tempo Com¬ 
mand” from the Tempo 
menu will display a library 
listing of all the macros 
you have recorded so far 
and the commands that 
can be applied to them. 


Selecting Tempo's 1 ‘Op¬ 
tions*,. 1 ’ menu during a 
recording allows you to 
jump from the current 
macro to another, using 
the 1 ‘Branch ... Always' 1 
function. What's more, 
you can instruct Tempo to 
look at the Clipboard and 
act according to what it 
finds there. 


4 file Edit Search Format Font Style K f 


start Recording 


^ . -1 ... ^]-2 -L-. I . 1 . il . . I J. .. . lA 1 . J .L 

Tempo Command 

1 tip limit.,, 

Configure.,. * 

Quit tempo 

□ 

[£□ [£□ □ 6 lines/Inch 1BM11^=1 [^^1 



Change to 12-pt Boston 
Change to 18-pt Boston 
Saue document 

O 

Tempo Command 


[ Plan J 

; [import...] 

I Standard paper settings 


t ] 

; [ Enporl... ] 





[Rename...] 

; l Lis t ... ] 


O 

[ Delete ] 

! [ Cancel j 


Standard paper settings 
K-f 


Stop Recording 


Suipend ftocorfllnc 
Real Tim* 


pint tempo 


Select on option: [ Cancel ] 

O Pause ® Brunei! | q 

O Open flppm at Ian O Loop 


french: if the clipboard uolue Is c 



Q - (Mntj Include 'Relum 1 ken) 


Oo 

Q <• ® Branch and Return... 

O >- O Branch and End... 

o Minay ■ O Fhd Macro 



FRESH START 


Along with Tempo comes a small double- 
clickable application called "Set Startup." 
By making this file the Finder's startup 
application, it is possible to select a Tempo 
macro and have the Macintosh run it 
automatically when the machine is turned 
on. for example, such a macro could open 
Tempo and format a blank document ready 
for input. More mischievous possibilities 
arise when sending disks to friends or 
colleagues — "OK TO ERASE HARD 
D!SK? M II 


during a recording, a dialog box 
appears that reveals Tempo's logical 
heart. By selecting “Branch” and 
then “Always” you can simply in¬ 
struct Tempo to jump directly to 
another macro. (This should really 
be the default setting, but unfortu¬ 
nately it is not.) 

But there are much more sophisti¬ 
cated possibilities. Tempo can be in¬ 
structed to examine the contents of 
the Clipboard and then do different 
things depending on what it finds 
there. Both text and numbers can be 
compared using a full range of logi¬ 
cal operators* By recording a COPY 
TO CLIPBOARD just before selecting 
“Options,” it is possible to use a 
critical piece of information (such as 
the contents of a spreadsheet cell) to 
decide what the macro will do next. 
This ingenious feature makes it pos¬ 
sible, for example, to write a macro 
that will scan a column of numbers 



IT’S THE REAL THING! 



Tempo's “Real Time" command should 
be used when it is necessary to record 
precise mouse movements — such as in 
this example, when using the paintbrush in 
MacPaint. With “Real Time" off, complex 
brush movements play back as simple 
straight tines between start and end points. 


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SEE MAC RUN 


ALL JAZZED UP! 

Tempo can give dm macro capabilities 
to rival Excel. A simple example is a macro 
that automatically creates a 12-row table lor 
monthly information and formats the next 
column for financial data. A second macro 
can record the steps necessary to convert a 
worksheet selection into a graph. Both 
sequences are easy to record and can be 
used again and again, saving large amounts 
of valuable time. 



in a spreadsheet, highlighting all 
those above a chosen value* 

There are other powerful com¬ 
mands available in the Options dia¬ 
log. A macro can be paused for a 
fixed period from one second to 24 
hours* It can be instructed to wait 
until a particular time of day or night 
(perhaps when the cost of connect¬ 
ing with a database is low). And it is 
also possible to instruct Tempo to 
repeat a macro a specified number of 
times or until a certain logical condi¬ 
tion is met* 

TIME KEEPING 

There is another important option 
in the Tempo menu called "Real 
Time/ 5 Normally, when Tempo re¬ 
cords a sequence of mouse move¬ 
ments, it remembers only the posi¬ 
tion of the mouse at the start and at 
the end of holding down the button* 
In MacPaint, for example, a compli¬ 
cated curve drawn with the pencil 


A SMALL WARNING ABOUT 
LARGE DESK ACCESSORIES 

Desk accesssories as large as Tempo 
(6QK when installed) can cause havoc in the 
System heap. When such DAs are installed 
and active, they can cause system crashes* 
typically ID=28 (the application and Sys¬ 
tem heaps have collided). 

Be wary when using large DAs. Save 
more often than you usually do* Try not to 
run more than one DA at a time. 

Tempo has shown some touchiness with 
some SCSI peripherals. That's probably 
because their Systems also make large 
demands on the System heap. 

It's probably wise to check with the 
manufacturer before installing Tempo in a 
System file that is to reside on a SCSI 
peripheral, — SB 


will replay as a straight line between 
the two end points! 

Usually, this is a desirable feature 
since it makes the files created by 
Tempo much more compact and it 
also means that small mistakes — 
like moving the mouse too far down 
a pull-down menu — are not record¬ 
ed, However, the "Real Time” op¬ 
tion provides a way to record exactly 
what the mouse docs* It is often the 
way to sort out occasional problems 
with macros that play back out of 
sequence* 

The final important facility Tempo 
offers is the ability to pause a macro 
at specific points to allow informa¬ 
tion to be entered* For example. 
Tempo can pause just before a file is 
saved to let the user choose a file¬ 
name. It is even possible to create 
Tempo dialog boxes that appear at 
the appropriate moment, telling the 
user what to do next. 

EASY DOES IT 

The beauty of Tempo is that al¬ 
though it has these powerful features 
that will appeal to sophisticated us¬ 
ers of the Macintosh, it is simple 
enough to help even new and inex¬ 
perienced users get better value from 
their machines. It is more like an 
extension of the operating system 
than a new application in itself, and 
as such it is something that takes a 
while to get used to. 

Tempo is nor without a few short¬ 
comings* One that is not mentioned 
anywhere in the otherwise excellent 
manual is that Tempo slows the Mac¬ 
intosh down to as little as 40 percent 
of its normal operating speed during 
replay. This is not serious in most 
applications — but it docs lessen rhe 
advantage of leaving Tempo to com¬ 
plete a series of time-consuming 


tasks, such as a run of hour-long Easy 
3D merges* 

Another occasional problem is 
that Tempo seems unable to record a 
few unusual Macintosh commands. 
FKKYs (like COMM AND-SHIFT-3 to 
save the screen to disk) and mouse 
clicks in the VideoWorks castmember 
window are cases in point. 

For a piece of software that so 
profoundly affects the operation of 
the Macintosh, Tempo seems remark¬ 
ably free of bugs* ( Bugs have been a 
deadly problem with MacTmcks — a 
less sophisticated macro desk acces¬ 
sory that has been around for over a 
year). Heavy use of Tempo seemed to 
reveal a few more system crashes 
than usual, bur certainly not so many 
as to discourage me from using Tem¬ 
po. A few programs arc totally in- 
compati ble, including Think! anb 
TO * RmdySetGo 2.0 , and AppleTalk 
with an HIT20 and the old ROMs. 
Microsoft Word, OvcrVUE, Switcher 
and no dmibr several others have 
problems that can he worked 
around* The manual covers known 
incompatibilities in a straightfor¬ 
ward manner. 

At $99 Tempo deserves a place in 
anyone's software library* Even if 
you rarely venture beyond Mac Write 
and MacPaint it has a great deal to 
otter — with plenty of power in 
reserve as you learn more about your 
Macintosh.^ 

Max Whitby is an English author and 
frequent contributor on both sides of the 
Atlantic . 


TEMPO 

Overall Rating: ■ ■ I 

Follows Mac Interlace: ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ 

Printed Documentation: ■ ■ ■ □ □ 

On-Screen Help: None 

Performance: ■ ■ ■ ■ □ 

Support: ■ ■ ■ □ □ 

Consumer Value: ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ 

Comments: Powerful macro generator with 
the ability to link macros and survive 
program quits and launches, Best Feature: 
The ability to link macros over several 
applications. Worst Feature: The slowdown 
of the Mac's operating speed during macro 
replay. List Price: $99. Published by Affini¬ 
ty Microsystems, Ltd., 1050 Walnut St., 
Boulder, CO 80302, (303) 442-4840. (800) 
255-5550, Version reviewed: 1.1. Not copy 
protected. 


42MACUSER JULY 1986 






































COMMUNICATE BETWEEN 
COMPUTERS... 



Use Mac or Apple files on a PC? Difficult? Not with the revolutionary Cauzin Softstrip™ 
System. With it you can easily move data between incompatible computers. Transfer ASCII or 
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And back again. 


Picture a complete system. One that provides a simple and reliable way to distribute 
and retrieve information. Anything you can put on a magnetic disk, you can put on 
a Softstrip data strip. Facts. Figures. Software programs. Video games. Product 
demonstrations. Sheet music. And the list goes on. 

A new industry' standard, Softstrip technology, has rapidly changed the shape of 
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But that’s just the beginning of the Softstrip story and the real art of stripping... 

How can you take a Mac Write file and read it into a PC word processor? 

• Save your Mac Write 4.5 file as a "text” File. 

• Print your file as strips using STRIPPER". 

• Read the strips into the PC with the Softstrip reader. 

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POWER COMPUTING 



How to make the most 


of those millions of 


bytes on your hard disk . 


WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO GET A 
hard drive for your Mac? After all* 
you have a perfectly good and large 
collection of floppies, and feeding 
them to Mac at intervals is a small 
price to pay in order to save on die 
large price of a hard drive, right? 

Wrong. A hard drive is more than 
just a replacement for SO or so 
floppy disks. Einstein would have 
loved hard driving: its myriad advan¬ 
tages can be summed up in two 
words — rime and space. 

SPEED 

A hard disk is a lot faster than a 
floppy disk. Not only does it spin 
faster, but it spins constantly, saving 
the time it takes a floppy to get up to 
speed when the drive turns on. And, 
if you’re fortunate enough to be 
using a SCSI interface for rhv drive, 
you save even more time in disk 
access operations. 


by 

Sharon 

Zardetto 

Aker 


Where do you see this time sav¬ 
ings? Everywhere. Most speed 
benchmarks for hard drives are given 
in terms of how fast you can open or 
quit an application. That may be 
useful for comparing different 
drives, but it misleads you as to the 
real speed advantage of hard drives; 
after all, you probably don't open 
and quit applications that often, and 
an extra half-minute at the beginning 
and end of a computing session may 
not be all that important; 

The important speed differences 
are found while you’re working in an 
application. Many large applications 
are only partially loaded into memo¬ 
ry when von start them. As you 
work, some portions of the program 
are dumped in favor of other seg¬ 
ments that have to be called up from 
the disk; these may be later replaced 
by still other program elements. 
Each time a new segment of the 
program is loaded into memory, you 
have to wait for the disk access. 
These delays can be avoided if you 
have enough memory to set up a 
large RAM disk, or a RAM cache, but 
if you Ye using a hard drive, you 
don't need the extra memory; hard 
disk access is fast enough to cause 
only barely perceptible delays in 
loading new program segments. 

Many applications, like Mac Write 
and Wm'd, load only a portion of a 
document at a time into memory. 
When you jump from one end of the 
document to another, or scroll 
through large areas, the application 
has to go back to the disk to get 
another piece of the document — 
and you have to wait. The wait is 
practically painless with a hard drive. 

Opening and saving documents 
takes time regardless of whether the 
entire program and/or the entire 
document is held in memory. On a 
5I2K Mac, for instance, both Mac¬ 
Paint and its document are in RAM. 
But, opening even a small <4R) 
Mac Painting takes about 6 seconds 
from a floppy; in addition, it rakes 
another 4 seconds just for the Open 
box to come up. The same operation 
with a hard drive is cut down to a 
total of about 3 seconds — and that’s 


44 MAC USER JULY 1986 


BARTON STABLER 
















THE JOYS OF HARD DRIVING 


using the Apple HO 2tf not one of 
the fastest hard drives around. 

Any rime you hear the drive whir 
when you Ye using floppies is time 
that can be saved when working 
with a hard drive: pulling out a desk 
accessory; turning Scrapbook pages; 
cutting and pasting; running a BA- 
SIC program. 

THE GIANT SYSTEM 

lx doesn’t take long before the 
new Mac owner starts trimming the 
System file to make more room on a 
disk. Cut down on those desk acces¬ 
sories, rip out those fonts! In the 
"early days’" (128K, no external 


FOOLING THE FINDER 

When you do a considerable amount of 
work on the desktop — rummaging 
through folders, moving documents 
around, trashing some files — you wind up 
with a tot of open windows, A messy 
desktop adds delays every time you return 
to the Finder from an application, but it also 
takes time to clean up after yourself before 
opening an application. If you don't want to 
take time to close all the windows on the 
desktop, but you do need to have them 
open for a while, you can open them 
without the Finder finding out: hold down 
the Option key when you open a folder. 
Since the Finder won't ''notice" that you've 
opened a folder this way, when you quit 
back to the desktop, the folders will be 
closed, and your desk will be neat. 

Ifs too bad the "Close AH" command 
that used to be In the File menu in the 
Finder has disappeared; it would be handy 
to clean the desk before opening an applica¬ 
tion. But, if you have Tempo , you can 
create a "Clean Up" macro. Just record a 
single selection of "Close" from the File 
menu, and set it to loop about ten times; 
that will close all the windows on the 
desktop. Another technique is also simple. 
First, make sure that nothing in the window 
is selected (highlighted). Then hold down 
the Option key while selecting "Close" from 
the File menu. That will close all open 
windows. 

Or, take advantage of a little quirk in 
Tempo , If Tempo is active on the Finder's 
menu bar and you use a macro to launch an 
application, your desktop activities are 
"forgotten" *— totally. If you've moved 
icons around, they'll be back in their origi¬ 
nal positions: if you’ve put things in the 
Trash, they'll be back in their folders unless 
you specifically empty the Trash before 
launching. 



floppy 

System 


H 

System 


There’s lots of room for 
fonts and desk accesso¬ 
ries when you're using a 
hard drive. 


drive). System -trimming became an 
art that still needs to be practiced to 
a considerable extent — if you Ye 
working with floppies. 

A hard drive takes away the size 
constraint on the System file; mine is 
a relatively modest 51 OK. You can 
fill the Apple menu to the brim —- it 
holds 16 accessories without resort¬ 
ing to any little tricks that cram in 
even more. And, you don't have to 
worry about the size of the desk 
accessories, either — the days of the 
IK Puzzle and Calculator arc gone. 
Four of the accessories 1 use the 
most — Affinity's Tempo, PBI's Lo¬ 
cates, Symmetry’s Acta, and Hay¬ 
den's CbenpPaitit — are 69 K, 35K, 
35K and 27K, respectively. 

Not only can you have numerous 
and large desk accessories, but a 
simple accessory like the Scrapbook 
can have an extremely large file, with 
dozens of pages of pictures and text 
always available. 

And fonts — you want fonts? You 
can have — well, probably as many 
as you want, in as many sizes as are 
available. Working with a System 
version 3.0 or higher, an over- 
stuffed font menu just scrolls when 
you drag ro its bottom. (You don’t 
need the new ROM in the Mac Hus 
for this: the new System file gives you 
scrolling menus on your Mac.) 

PERMANENT ACCESSORY FILES 

Although it seems only a minor 


convenience at first, working with a 
single System for every application is 
a major hard-driving benefit. With 
tlie same System, you always have the 
same desk accessories; more impor¬ 
tantly, you always have the same 
desk accessory files available. 

How many times have you pasted 
something in the Scrapbook, or jot¬ 
ted something in the Note Pack only 
to discover it missing the next time 
you pulled out the accessory? Each 
disk with a System on it has its own 
Scrapbook and Note Pad files; the 
information vou store on one disk 
stays there unless you specifically 
copy the file to another disk. On a 
hard disk, you work with only one 
file for each desk accessory. 

Having different disks holding 
different Scrapbook and Note Pad 
files can be annoying and time-con¬ 
suming, but having different disk 
files for something like a Calendar 
desk accessory cripples its effective¬ 
ness. The kind of constant, immedi¬ 
ately available information that you 
have as a hard driver will make you 
wonder how vou ever managed on a 
floppy system. 

THE OLD SWITCHEROO 

Switcher is a grear program; it can 
handle four applications in 512K of 
memory, or eight with 1024K* The¬ 
oretically. 

Why theoretically? Because, de¬ 
spite the fact that Switcher can juggle 










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Desktop strategies, Ill 
Sloppy and slow. (2t Neat 
and fast (3) Avoiding the 
issue. 


46MACUSER JU LY 1986 

















































the information, you have to make it 
available: the installed applications, a 
System, and usually the Finder* all 
have to he on accessible disks — and 
you have to leave some room for 
your documents, too. You run out 
of disk space long before vou reach 
Switcher's ea p ae i n:. 

With a hard drive, there's no 
problem when it comes to room for 
the applications and the documents 
—■ and that wonderfully permanent 
System file. 

HARD DRIVE STRATEGIES 
USING HFS 

Okay, so 1 talked you into it — 
you just ran out and got yourself a 
hard drive. Now, get yourself orga¬ 
nized so you can handle all those 
megs of information quickly and 
easily. 

The necessity for Apple's HFS — 
Hierarchical Filing System — is ob¬ 
vious once you start using a hard 
drive. Can you imagine scrolling 
through every file in the hard drive 
to find the one you want? HFS lets 
you open and save documents using 
the folders you created on the desk¬ 
top. 

Arrange your hard drive to make 
this opening and saving of docu¬ 
ments as efficient as possible. Keep 
no more than seven main folders on 
the desktop (on the “root level”). 
Most Open boxes show at least sev¬ 
en items in the scroll area; this means 
you won’t have to scroll to get to the 


COPY UNPROTECTION 


|Q ArtDisks~| 


CD 1. Mac the Knife 


□ BodySfoop 
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CD Clickfirt 
CD Oipflrt 

CD ClkflrtHdays 
CD MacPaintlngs 

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CD MCPJC2 



3 HD 20 


[ *jett ) 

[ iint»e ~") 

[ Open 1 

[ Cancel] 


To keep folders or docu¬ 
ments that you access of¬ 
ten at the top of the a I* 
phabctical list, you can 
cheat by adding numbers 
to the names. 


Using the MiniFinder is 
one way to avoid return¬ 
ing to the desktop be¬ 
tween applications. 


folder you want. 

Keep items you use often on the 
first level inside a main folder, so you 
can get to them by opening onlv one 
folder. If vou keep a lot of docu¬ 
ments or folders at any level, you 1 11 
be doing a lot of scrolling. On the 
other hand, the deeper vtutr folders 
are nested (a folder in a folder in a 
folder.,,,}, the more things you have 
to open to get to the item vou want. 
After vouVe worked in IIFS for a 


while, you'll know how to balance 
the use of folders and the storage of 
documents. 

If there’s a certain folder vou use 
more often than others in the same 
level, make sure it comes first alpha¬ 
betically; that way, it will always be 
automatically selected in an Open 
box when you get to that level. You 
don't have to rack vour brain for a 
folder name that is both appropriate 
to the subject and early in the alpha¬ 
bet: prefixing any folder name with 
the number I will put it ahead items 
starting with alphabetic characters. 


If you disliked copy protection when you 
worked with floppies, you’ll hate it when 
you graduate to a hard disk. There you are, 
with 20 megabytes of information stored 
neatly in one place, and you still have to 
feed in a key disk when you open an 
application. 

Until software companies wake up and at 
least provide installers for the hard drivers 
among us, there are ways around the 
problem. But, the roundabout ways for 
hard drive copies are necessarily different 
from making a backup floppy. (Here's 
where I have to put the disclaimer: we 1 re 
talking about copying a program that you 
bought, making a backup copy for your 
personal protection.) 

HardQiskUtil from FWB Software lets you 


install almost any protected program onto 
your hard disk. This simple program re¬ 
quires specific "patch" files to do its job. It 
comes with files for many popular pro¬ 
grams. including all the major business 
packages. As with all programs of this type, 
it is constantly being upgraded, and new 
patch files are available on a San Francisco 
bulletin board that is open (for a fee of 
under $20 per year) to all registered Hard- 
DiskUtil owners. This neat little program is 
really a necessity for proper use of your 
hard disk, 

PRODUCT INFO 

HardDiskUtil, S89.95, FWB Software, 
2040 Polk Street, Suite 215, San Francisco, 
CA 94109, 415-474-6055. 


WHAT'S IN A FOLDER? 

You must have a System folder 
when you're working on a hard 
drive. Under HFS, the System and 
the Finder must cither be in the 
System folder, or on the root level of 
the drive — loose on the desktop. 
Dedicated files for desk accessories 
must also be in the System folder; 
the Scrapbook and Note Pad, for 
instance, look to the System folder 
to find their stored information, 

Beyond the System folder, there 
are a number of situations where 
certain information must he kept 
together in a folder, although the 
name of the folder doesn’t matter. 


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THE JOYS OF HARD DRIVING 


Some of these constraints will disap¬ 
pear as programs are designed to be 
more fully compatible with HFS. 
When you use Switcher, for instance, 
all the applications you're installing, 
as well as Switcher itself must be in 
the same folder. The current version 
of Microsoft BASIC can only read 
and write files at the root level of die 
drive. Some programs, like Mag¬ 
num’s Slide Show Magician, need all 
the related documents in the same 
folder as the application. 

CLEANLINESS IS NEXT TO SPEEDINESS 

Every rime you quit an application 
and return to the Finder, the desktop 
is “rebuilt 11 ' to look the way it was 
when you left it. If you keep a sloppy 
desk, with many files open, it will 
take that much longer to rebuild. 
With 16 megabytes on an Apple HD 
20 with only the main window 


FINDER OF LOST FILES 

It's easy to forget where you stored a file 
on a hard disk. Maybe you remember the 
name of the folder it’s in...sort of: or. 
maybe you at teast remember the name of 
the document...sort of. Or, maybe you 
know the name of the file and the folder that 
you thought you put it in. but it's just not 
there. 

There’s a new desk accessory that can 
save you: HFS Locater Plus. 

The HFS Dart you know about. The 
Locater part finds the file you’ve tost. The 
Plus part includes: setting up search criteria 
for the file; manipulating file once you find 
it; creating disk catalogs; creating new 
folders; and, launching directly into another 
application when you quit the current one. 

When you're searching for a file, you can 
type its full name, or use “wild cards" for 
characters you aren't sure of. You can 
specify a date, and look for files that were 
either created or modified on, before, or 
after that date. You can search only tor 
documents for a specific application. If you 
have a general idea of where you left the 
file, you can set the search starting point at 
any (older, further specifying whether or 
not to look through the folders inside that 
folder. (You can also skip the Search 
feature and just select a specific file.) 

Once you've found your file, you can 
copy, rename, or delete it. or move it to 
another folder. You can also "Get Info" on 
it. or set it up to launch when you quit the 
current application — or launch immediate¬ 
ly if you're in the Finder. 



Locater’s main window 
lets you enter the search 
criteria for a filef aster¬ 
isks and question marks 
serve as wild cards in the 
file’s name. 


open, and eight items in that win¬ 
dow, it takes about 18 seconds to 
quit from MacPaint and return to 
rile desktop. With a dozen folders 
open, it takes nearly 40 seconds. 

You can save time bv keeping a 
neat desktop; or, you can stay a slob 
and just avoid visiting the Finder 


Locater can create a text file that catalogs 
all the fifes on your disk, or on any part of 
it* You can catalog the contents of a 
specific folder, or all MacPaint documents 
regardless of where they are, or ail the files 
created in the month of May, 

Locater is more than a useful desk 
accessory — it's an absolute necessity with 
a hard drive, ft's not perfect — I'd like to 
see a find Folder option, and be able to 
search tor text files, and use an auto-open 
into the current application when a file is 
found — but even as it stands, it's a terrific 
bargain. 

Locater is just about to be released as we 
go to press. While the release version of the 
program was reviewed, the final documen¬ 
tation is still at the printer. With luck, the 
manual will not only describe the features 
available, but wifi also provide a few sug¬ 
gestions on how to make best use of 
Locater. It's not immediately apparent, for 
instance, that if you want to search a disk 
other than the default hard drive, you can 
access it using the start search at . . . 
menu option. It also might take a while to 
realize that Locater can be used as a backup 
utility for the work you do each day or 
week, locater is a terrific tool that can be 
used in many different ways, 

PRODUCT INFO 

HFS Locater Plus, $34,95. PBI Software, 
fill Triton Drive* 2nd floor* Foster City, 
CA 94494, 800-843-5722. 


between applications* 

One way to do this is by using the 
Min Winder, This is easy to set up 
while you’re at the desktop; just 
select some of the applications on 
your drive and choose USE MINI¬ 
FINDER from the Special menu. 
When you open an application and 
then quit it, you won’t return to the 
desktop. Instead, you’ll be presented 
with icons for the applications you 
chose. 

Using Switcher is another way to 
avoid a detour to the desktop be¬ 
tween applications* If your comput¬ 
ing usually consists of using the same 
few applications, you can set up a 
Switcher document that will always 
load and open the same applications 
for you* 

If you’re not the plan-ahead type, 
the MiniFinder and Switcher aren’t 
your best bets. Instead, try some¬ 
thing like BartcryPak’s Launcher 
desk accessory or PBI’s Locater DA. 
Launcher, once activated, comes into 
play any time you quit an applica¬ 
tion. Instead of going to the desk¬ 
top, you ger an Open box that lets 
you pick and open any application. In 
Locater, you can find any document, 
and set it to open — with its applica¬ 
tion, of course — as soon as you quit 
the current application* 

START DRIVING 

There you have it: why you 
should get a hard drive, and what 
you should do with it. It’s easy to 
work more efficiently when you have 
the hardware that lets you turn into 
a speed demon and a pack rat* 
Shanm Znrdetto Aker is n contributing 
editor of AtncUser and author of pinny 
computer books. 


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SOFTWARE IS A HELD OI : UPS AND 
downs, of winners and losers, of 
trends. Right now, integration is the 
rage. Programs that do many things 
are usually perceived of as being 
more valuable and better than pro¬ 
grams that can only perform one 
111 net ion. Programs like Excel, 
Crunch and jazz — all of which 
combine functions such as spread¬ 
sheet number crunching, database 
management and text editing in a 
single package — have been getting 
lots of attention lately. 

There's no question that programs 
like these have their place — unfor¬ 
tunately, that place is not on a 128K 
Mac. With their hefty RAM require¬ 
ments, these packages can only play 
with the big boys — at least 512K of 
RAM and we’d prefer a hard disk as 
well, thank you. 

Users with J28K Macs (and your 
numbers are sri!) large) aren’t left 
entirely without options* though. If 
you’ve been thinking about integra¬ 
tion but balk at the cost of upgrad¬ 
ing your equipment, there are Jcss- 
touted programs available that will 
definitely fit your machine and 
might very well fit your needs. 

Roth H aba Systems’ Quartet and 
Haydens 1 Ensemble are integrated 
programs whose debuts predated the 
release of Jazz. Unlike their much- 
publicized competition, these two 
programs were, in fact, designed for 
use on the 128K Macintosh. Both 
offer database, mathematical, text 
and charting capabilities. Other than 
that though, they don’t have a whole 
lot in common. 

Every integrated program has to 
have a particular area of strength, a 


Quartet and Ensemble 


offer the benefits of 


integration to 128K 


owners . 


format or basis for its other applica¬ 
tions to revolve around. While 
Quartet has definite database capa¬ 
bilities, it’s primarily a spreadsheet. 
Ensemble, on the other hand, offers 
considerable mathematical power, 
but is essential I v a database. 

FOUR IN A BOX 

Experienced spreadsheet users will 
have no difficulty adapting to Quar¬ 
tet, Both old hands and new users 
will enjoy its well-written and orga¬ 
nized documentation. Novices, in 
particular, will find the tutorial por¬ 
tion of the user’s manual a real 
pleasure, with its easy-to-follow, 
onc-srep-at-a-time introduction to 
general spreadsheet terminology and 
specific Quartet functions. 

For those who like to jump in 
with both feet, the “About Quartet” 
file available through the Apple 
menu, provides an extensive list of 
on-screen help selections. Quarters 
inclusion of help as an option in each 
dialog box is an unusual, but useful, 
feature as well. 

Quartet is copy protected, with a 
system that uses the key-disk meth¬ 
od. That is, you arc asked to insert a 
valid master after launching a copy* 
After validation, you return ro the 

by Donna Barron 


copy and work there. Each work 
disk will have over 125K of free 
space, so Quartet can be used with 
single-drive systems without much 
of the disk swapping normally asso¬ 
ciated with such systems. Unfortu¬ 
nately lacking is a hard disk installer, 
so while the program can be copied 
to a hard disk, it will still ask to see a 
master disk each time it is launched. 

Quarters opening screen presents 
a standard spreadsheet grid topped 
bv the familiar Mac menu titles. The 
columns arc headed by letters, while 
the rows arc indicated by numbers. 
A Quartet spreadsheet can extend up 
to 62 columns across and 99 rows 
down. However, 12SK of memory 
will only let you fill between 1000 
and 2000 cells per spreadsheet (the 
exact number depends on how big 
the cell entries actually are). If you 
run Quartet on a 512K Mac, the 
number of cells available increases to 
between 15,000 and 20,000, 

The program lias its own built-in 
font, Escondido 10, which it will use 
regardless of what else is in the 
System file. This easily readable font 
allows approximately nine characters 
per cell (in the default cell size). 
Making individual columns wider or 
narrower is a snap, though, and even 
global changes can lie affected with 
little more than a click. However, 
Escondido 10 is both the beginning 
and end when it comes to fonts you 
can use. And about the grandest 
thing Quartet can offer in text for¬ 
matting is underlining, so don’t give 
up your word processor just yet. 

User-designated cell ranges can be 
set aside as blank (tinlined) text areas 
to create multiline worksheet titles. 


50MACUSER JUL Y 1986 













descriptions, explanations, legends 
for graphs and even uncomplicated 
letters or memos. Individual text 
areas hold up to 1000 characters, 
and any spreadsheet can contain the 
equivalent ol up to 22 typed pages. 

In addition to the standard text 
entering and editing functions that 
apply throughout the program. 
Quartet provides built-in tabs and 
word wraps in these specially desig¬ 
nated text areas. Text areas can also 
be protected so you can't inadver¬ 
tantly overwrite them when using 
the Copv or Paste functions. 

We found it easy to move text 
from a MacWritc document into a 
Quanct text area via the Clipboard 
(the text appeared, as expected, in 
Escondido 10), but trying to move 
text between Quartet and Word 
proved impossible. One of Quarters 
real inconveniences is its inability" to 
show the contents of the Clipboard 
with doing a Paste. 

Moving through a Quartet spread¬ 
sheet is straightforward. Your op¬ 
tions are flexible, and include a Go- 
To feature and the ability to set 
screen ranges. You can also jump 
quickly between two screens and 
scroll diagonally as well as in the 
usual horizontal and vertical direc¬ 
tions. However, Quarter's diamond 
cursor control seems clumsy com¬ 
pared to the immediacy of the Mac's 
scroll bars. 


Quartet's cell location bar is a 
clever idea, though. At the top of the 
screen, this area not only constantly 
indicates where you are in the 
spreadsheet, but lets you key in 
where you'd like to be. This process 
can be made even faster by using 
Quartet's range-storing option. Up 
to six cell ranges can be stored and 
instantly clicked into. And while the 
program isn’t geared for extensive 
windowing, you can split the screen 
cither horizontally or vertically. 

Quartet*$ dynamic graphics let you 
create and alter bar, pie and line 
charts directly from spreadsheet 
data, and plot up to four different 
ranges (datasets) on a single bar or 
line chart. While these charts cannot 
be transferred directly into Atae~ 
Write documents via the Clipboard, 
they can be dumped as MacPaint 
documents ( COMM AN D-Sl 11 FT-3), en¬ 
hanced in MacPaint, and then trans¬ 
ferred into documents created with 
other programs. It would have been 
nice if a facility was provided for also 
transferring these graphs into Mac- 
Draw in PICT format. 

The database functions are very 
basic. Columns are designated as 
fields and each entry is confined to a 
single row. Sorting is limited to a 
single primary field, with an optional 


JULY 1986 MACUSER51 




























GOOD THINGS IN SLIM PACKAGES 


subsort on a secondary field. How- 
ever, mathematical operations can be 
performed on the data in numeric 
fields. 

Qumtefs powerful spreadsheet ca¬ 
pability and ease of use arc its most 
attractive features. Haba has recently 
enhanced both by offering a §49,95 
set of spreadsheet templates that vir¬ 
tually negates the need to design 
your own spreadsheets. The 37 time- 
saving templates include complex 
“what if?” operations such as break¬ 
even and expense analyses and light 
insurance planning. These can be 
used as is or modified to a particular 
need. 

A GATHERING OF APPLICATIONS 

While Ensemble can match many 
of Quartefs computational opera¬ 
tions, it does so without a visible 
spreadsheet. Ensemble 3 ?, on-screen 
persona is as a data entry form and 
its major thrust is as a report and 
form generator. 

On opening the program, you are 
presented with a blank screen on 
which to create the format in which 
the data will be stored. At the top of 


the screen arc eight menu tides, and, 
at the bottom you'll see seven indeci¬ 
pherable icons. This is not a pro¬ 
gram you can just dive right into. 

Ensemble comes with three sepa¬ 
rate disks. In addition to the pro¬ 
gram itself — which uses the same 
copy protection scheme as Quartet 
— there is a guided tour (actually, 
this is a basic tutorial) disk and a disk 
with a set of examples (advanced 
templates). Unfortunately, die guid¬ 
ed tour is basic to the point of being 
boring, and the examples are so 
complicated that they verge on being 
incomprehensible. 

While the icons are explained and 
instructions for designing forms are 
given at length in the comprehensive 
and picture-packed manual, there are 
so many things to learn, so many 
commands and combinations to re¬ 
member, that attempting to master 
the program is a real undertaking. 

Setting up a form requires the 
creation of various text boxes that 
can be dragged to exactly where you 
want them. To give them their due, 
the program's authors have offered 
users tremendous flexibility, allow- 


Quarters dynamic graph¬ 
ics let users create charts 
directly from selected 
spreadsheet data. 



Most of Quartet's func¬ 
tions occur in or work 
from a spreadsheet lay¬ 
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entries that combine variable and 
static text fields as well as picture or 
graphic fields. The program even 
provides a variety of shapes, lines, 
patterns and prints to help decorate 
and personalize forms and charts. 

Once you get past setting up the 
forms, filling in, altering and utiliz¬ 
ing data is fairly straightforward. 
However, here again the user is 
faced with eight more (and differ¬ 
ent) indecipherable option icons. It 
would have been much simpler and 
better it', instead of showing an icon 
with a tiny Macintosh, the search 
icon just said “Search.” 

Since it is essentially a database. 
Ensemble^ greatest power is where 
you'd expect it to be — in its search 
and list capabilities. For quick infor¬ 
mation retrieval, each data entry can 
be assigned three key fields to sort 
on. For more involved searches, the 
specification icon can be clicked, and 
search instruction entered in the dia¬ 
log box that appears. These instruc¬ 
tions can include both logical and 
mathematical operators, and any 
field names in a given file or files can 
be utilized to set up search criteria. 

Despite the fact that it's not set up 
like a spreadsheet, Ensemble has very 
strong computational abilities and 
can link data between up to three 
files. Computations can be built into 
forms (“always add these two fig¬ 
ures”) or set up via conditional state¬ 
ments (“increase the value of this 
field 10 percent in all entries dated 
after June 15"). Ensemble does not 
use windowing to show the various 
files in use. However, up to three 
files can be opened for concurrent 
use. These files appear as icons on 
the Ensemble desktop and can be 
brought to the screen individually 
(not at the same time) by clicking 
their icons. Users can shift in and 
out of files on the desktop to pull 
out the data necessary to specify a 
search or computation. 

Ensemble has considerable charting 
ability and offers a choice among ten 
different formats, many of which 
have a three-dimensional appear¬ 
ance. The charts created arc directly 
related to lists made during searches 
of the database. 

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FLIERS. THEY’RE PART OF THE 
mass media we all see every day, 
tacked to school bulletin boards, 
lampposts, mailboxes and communi¬ 
ty meeting halls. They can do any* 
tiling from publicizing a garage sale 
or dub meeting to helping find lost 
pets. They're one of the best ways to 
organize neighbors, spread the 
word, or find an apartment. And, 
with a little help from the Mac, 
they're beautiful, cheap and easy to 
produce, 

WHATS YOUR STYLE? 

The key clement of a flier, or of 
any one-page visual, is in the use of 
white space, where there’s no graph¬ 
ic or text. 

Back in the pre-Mac days, most 
fliers were handwritten, said only 
what they had to, and didn’t place a 
heavy emphasis on graphics or visual 
effects. When photos were needed 
(to identify lost pets, for example) 
they were simply taped to the flier 
master before it was photocopied. 
While chose fliers were hardly styl¬ 
ish, at least they were functional. 

Owning a Mae opens up a verita¬ 
ble universe of style. Want an attrac¬ 
tive border or unusual typeface? 
There are hundreds available on the 
market, or you can even design your 
own. Graphics can be imported easi¬ 
ly enough, and if you don’t like the 
way one flier comes out, it’s simple 
to change it and just print it out 
again. 

Of course, the style of your flier 
depends heavily on the purpose it 


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will be used for. Attention-grabbing 
headlines like “REWARD’' need far 
less visual embellishment than heads 
announcing dub meetings, school 
dances or puppies for sale. Make 
your visuals match the story you’re 
trying to tell. 

CUPPING ART 

The graphics available for Mac 
owners to use are as diverse as the 
works they’ll be used for. Clip-art 
type disks are plentiful, spanning the 
gamut from light, cartoonish designs 
all the way to sophisticated drawings 
or digitized images. If you’re not 
much of an artist, or don’t have the 
time to create a graphic that’s as 
good as it should be, make use of 
what already exists and save yourself 
a lot of aggravation. Since virtually 
all clip-art comes in the form of 


MacPaint documents, they can even 
be modified to create personalized 
effects. 

Among the best art programs for 
creating fliers are: 

Mac the Knife, Volumes 1 and 3: 
Volume One is chock full of high- 
quality graphics that are flexible 
enough to accommodate a wide vari¬ 
ety' of situations. It includes a num¬ 
ber of small, icon-type symbols that 
come in handy as graphic header 
dements, and also offers a wide 
variety of interesting borders. Vol¬ 
ume Three is geared more towards 
seasonal work—holiday parties and 
the like. This graphics set includes a 
few large showcase pieces, which 
make attractive centerpieces for set¬ 
ting text around, plus a lor of small, 
humorous dingbats and some inter¬ 
esting, new-wavish art. 

T-Maker’s ClkkA n Publications of¬ 
fers a useful collection of block 
graphics particularly geared towards 
newsletter-style work, but these are 
useful for any publication design. 

Simon St Schuster’s Mac A rtDcpt. 
features a wide col lection of large 
objects, with motifs ranging from 
travel to business to personal posses¬ 
sions. This disk also includes a nice 
selection of borders. 

Springboard’s An a la Mac, Vol¬ 
umes I and 2* consist of a large 
sprinkling of small, diverse elements 
that can be used individually or in 
groups to create cartoonish vi¬ 
gnettes. If you’ll be trying to inject a 
sense of humor into your fliers, these 
are worth a second look. 


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This Bier was created entirely in MacPaint, using various styles and sizes This ad was laid out In JWacOraw. The various forrts used include Joe 

of the Athens font. The kitten was clipped from compuCRAFTs Mac-Art Clement, Kim Deitch ffrom Mac The Knife, Voi. 3), and Sydney and 

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automatically puts a border margin along the bottom. 


There are also a number of books 
that contain public domain graphics, 
such as the Clipper Art series, that 
have been widely used by advertising 
agencies for years. If you have a 
ThundcrScan or other digitizer, us¬ 
ing graphics books offers a bottom¬ 
less we11 of d iverse■> rea listic amvt>rk. 

FONTS 

No matter what kind of fonts 
you'll he using in your lliers, remem¬ 
ber that the typeface must be large. 
Large enough to read from a dis¬ 
tance, large enough to attract the 
eye. We recommend a font size of at 
least 14 point, though for a real eye- 
catcher, go for something as large as 
72 points. {MacIVrite can’t handle 
fonts larger than 24 points, so large 
headlines should be created in Mac¬ 
Paint. ) The headline should be much 
larger than the main body copy, if 
any, and the accompanying text 
should be short and to the point. 
You're trying to create interest with 
a flier, not give away the entire story. 

The fonts that come with the 
Mac IVarc disk are fine for those on a 
tight budget, although of course. 


you can get as fancy as you want. 
MacWritc and MacPaint create 
beautiful, professional-looking text 
and graphics, and of course these can 
be augmented by just about any 
fonts y'oli like. Any font can be saved 
to the Scrapbook, then inserted into 
the flier and stretched to fit individ¬ 
ual specifications. 

There air almost as many good 
sources for new fonts as there are 
good fonts. Among the best com¬ 
mercially produced fonts: 

Mac the Knife , Volume 2 contains 
excellent fonts for body copy. Paris, 
Sunnyvale, Rome and Montreal all 
print out exquisitely on an Image- 
Writer. This collection offers a wide 
variety of fonts in smaller (12- and 
24-puint) sizes. Mac the Knife , Vol¬ 
ume 3 is a good choice if you're 
looking for highly stylized, large 
fonts for headlines. Just about every 
font in this package is useful. 

Kensington's Headline Fonts was 
one of the first display face packages 
available, and it's still one of the best. 
The package is offered in small to 
medium sizxs (up to 36 points), and 
in larger sizes (up to 72 points) for 


the 512K and larger Mac. All are 
attractive and very usable. 

There are also a lor of fonts aY'ail- 
able in the public domain, available 
from users’ groups and BBSs. With a 
little investigative work, you'll be 
sure to dig up the perfect font for the 
job at hand. 

PHOTOS 

There are two ways to create fliers 
with actual photos, which are essen¬ 
tial for finding lost animals, and also 
come in handy for selling big-ticket 
items like furniture; either digitize 
them using one of the Mac digitiz¬ 
ers, or use the old fashioned method 
of literally pasting them to the paper 
just before photocopying. 

LEAFLETS 

Designing and laying out a leaflet 
presents some interesting problems. 
First, of course, lea tiers require a 
completely different look—for the 
most part they consist of an atten¬ 
tion grabbing cover page, two inner 
pages that deliver the information, 
and a back page that is often blank, 
nr contains only details like addresses 


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hard and fast rule; ir’s just what most 
people do. 

The most important thing to re* 
member when creating a leaflet is 
that the page must be split evenly 
along the top and bottom, with the 
center used as a Fold line. You’ll get 
the most precise layout by creating 
the page in MacDraw. 

DO YOU NEED A PAGE LAYOUT 
PROGRAM? 

Probably not. Fliers are relatively 
small undertakings easily accom¬ 
plished using just MacPaint. Page 
layout programs arc expensive tor 
such small jobs. If you have one, 
experiment with using it. If you 
don't have one, don’t feel you have 
to buy it just to create a flier. Page 
layout programs arc primarily de¬ 
signed for producing newsletters, 
and their special features are geared 
to creating multiple page documents 
with consistent formats. They’re not 
really designed for precise drafting. 

PRINTING PROBLEMS 

The ideal printing medium for 
your fliers is obviously the Laser¬ 


Writer, which produces the kind of 
quality printing most people would 
expect from a typesetting shop. If 
you have a LaserWriter available, 
this should be your hands-down first 
choice. 

Alas, most of us still use the 
ImageWriter as our day-to-day 
workhorse. While it presents a few 
problems that the LaserWriter 
doesn’t, it sure does beat printing 
out your fliers on a Gestemer ma¬ 
chine! 

If you’ll be printing your flier on 
an ImageWriter, it’s a good idea not 
to use large areas of black, since the 
result will be a thin collection of dark 
gray stripes* If black shapes are es¬ 
sential to your visual presentation, 
go ahead and print it out, but expect 
to have to fill in the stripes with a 
felt-tip marker before photocopying. 

Did we say photocopy? Yes. It’s 
much cheaper in the long run to 
photocopy your fliers than it is to 
print them on either the Image- 
Writer or the LaserWriter. With the 
former, the wear and tear on your 
ribbon will probably entail replacing 
it, while the latter is sure to run short 


on toner in its cartridge. This is 
especially true for print runs of more 
than a dozen or so. Photocopying 
can also tighten up the final look of 
the flier, dosing up tiny boles and 
smoothing out rough edges, 

FINAL NOTES 

Remember, the point of a flier is 
to fit as much info as possible into 
relatively restricted design. You’re 
trying to attract as much attention as 
you can, which means you can’t 
clutter up the page with too much 
tiny gobblcdygook. Keep it short, 
sweet and to the point. 

Fliers arc often not designed with 
graphics, since they’re usually writ¬ 
ten off the cuff—that’s why graphics 
make fliers really stand out. The 
larger the type, the better your fin¬ 
ished product will look (especially 
on ImageWriter). 

Finally, if you hate the way your 
finished product turned out, tear it 
up and create another. With the 
Mac, you’re not tied to any single 
“look,” so relax and have fun with it* 
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ONE LATE WINTER DAY, OUR 
graphics company received a call 
from a local nonprofit organization 
which needed slides to accompany a 
lecture presentation. Was there any 
way, using microcomputers, to gee 
last, professional-quality color slides 
with minimal expense? We consid¬ 
ered the Apple II and the IBM, but 
although these computers arc great 
for creating interactive presentations 
without costly specialized hardware 
and software, they can't produce the 
j aggies-free text essential to profes¬ 
sional -quality slides. 

We had often talked about using 
the Macintosh/LaserWriter combi¬ 
nation to create presentation graph¬ 
ics. The lack of color was the Mac’s 
most serious drawback, but we knew 
there must be a way. There was. 
Here’s how we did it, 

DECISIONS 

We received typewritten specs: 
The presentation would consist of 
text and flow charts derailing the 
services of the organization. Deci¬ 
sion number one: What software 
should we use? There was no need 
for a specialized program to generate 
graphs and bar or pie charts. We 
elected to use MacDraw, because it 
allows for easy manipulation of lines 
and boxes, offers rulers and a grid 
for alignment, and, unlike MacPaint, 
fully utilizes LaserWriter fonts. Most 
important for our purposes, Mac- 
Draw allowed us to see the entire 
page as we worked. (See “Mastering 


MacDraw, 11 MacUsn\ Novcm her 

1985 .) 

The next decision was which fonts 
to use, and in what size. We couldn’t 
consider the many fonts available for 
the Image-Writer (as the LaserWriter 
doesn’t do a satisfactory job of 
smoothing them for high-quality 
output). If we were working in Mac¬ 
Paint t this wouldn’t have been a 
problem, as fonts typed into Paint 
and printed on the LaserWriter look 
just fine. The only problem is that 
the Drmj’/LaserWriter graphics reso¬ 
lution is compromised. One way 
around this is to use the ChcapPaint 
desk accessory to create display text, 
and paste it into the MacDraw lay¬ 
out. Since our charts required a lot 
of text, we decided to limit ourselves 
to one compact, sans serif laser font. 
We chose Helvetica in 18 to 24 
point type sizes that would be ideal 
for projection. 

LESSONS TO BE LEARNED 

We installed the LaserWriter fonts 
in MncDmn^s system file. (You can 
allow the LaserWriter printer driver 
to substitute its fonts tor Mac’s fonts 
during printing, bur if you do that, 
you can’t accurately judge the place¬ 
ment of text on the graphics.) We 
began with the flowcharts, drawing 
the boxes, connecting them with 
lines and then entering the text. It 
wasn’t long before wc encountered 
MacDraw J s notorious bug. 

In version L9 or lower, automati¬ 
cally aligned text can be a problem, 
“Automatically aligned text” is text 
created by typing without first se¬ 
lecting the text tool. Such text is 
gracefully attached to the object 
that’s currently active. Gracefully, 
that is, until we started to manipu¬ 
late it. After moving boxes around to 
experiment with layouts, vve discov¬ 
ered that the text was no longer 


centered in the boxes. Lesson one: 
orate separate text objects, turn off the 
jpid feature, amt center each text object 
manually in its box . 

We also had a few surprises in 
store with the '"REDUCE TO FIT” fea¬ 
ture. Sometimes we’d "SELECT ALL" 
and try to move the grouped objects 
— how depressing it was to watch 
helplessly as the objects collapsed 
into a shrunken mess. (Usually, 
UNDO undid the damage.) Lessons 2, 
v? and 4: Save. Save . Save, 

CONTINUITY ABOVE ALL 

We found that a horizontal orien¬ 
tation worked best for our slides. All 
Mac programs that use the standard 
Page Setup dialog box can produce 
output in the horizontal, or land¬ 
scape, mode. When some of the 
flowcharts didn’t fir well in a hori¬ 
zontal orientation, rather than devi¬ 
ate with a vertical format, wc rede¬ 
signed them to maintain consistency. 

Visual continuity from slide to 
slide was assured, thanks to the 
Mac's Cut and Paste feature. For the 
text charts, wc chose to box the title 
of each slide. After laying out the 
first one, we cut die box and title, 
and then pasted it into the Scrap¬ 
book. As wc started each new chart, 
we pasted in the box and replaced 
the old title with die current one. In 
this way, the size of the boxes and 
position of the text within them 
remained constant. Wc used bullets 
to accent each paragraph (the bullet 
character is produced by typing OP¬ 
TION-8). 

WHAT YOU SEE MAY NOT BE WHAT 
YOU GET 

When printing on the Laser¬ 
Writer, “what you see” on the screen 
doesn’t always match “what vou 
get,” so it's essential to do final 
proofreading on LaserWriter out- 


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put. That’s when you’ll discover, for 
example, that bullets print very small 
(we returned to MacDmw, cut the 
bullets and used small circles in¬ 
stead). 

Some of our charts were quite 
complex and filled the page, leaving 
very small margins. These charts 
printed fine as one page on the 
LmageWriter, but the same images 
printed as two pages on the Laser¬ 
Writer. Instead of manually reducing 
the entire design (an extremely te¬ 
dious procedure), the simplest wav 
to deal with this was to use the 
reduction feature in the Laser 
Writers print dialog box. A 90 per¬ 
cent reduction adequately squeezed 
the edge-to-edge chart onto a stan¬ 
dard page. In the final printing, we 
printed every chart at this reduction 
so that we’d have consistent type size 
throughout. 

THE COLOR CONUNDRUM 

Once we had created a set of 
typeset-quality charts, all that was 
left was to add color to them. While 
people with large budgets can use a 
professional slide color system that 
works with colored filters, these 
typically start at S2000 and go way 
up in price, so for us they were out. 
We tried coloring in the boxes with 
markers, but the color came out 
shaded and unprofessional looking. 
After much deliberation and experi¬ 
mentation, we took a labor-inten¬ 
sive, but inexpensive, route: trans¬ 
parent color overlays. 

Transparent overlays, which are 
available in most art supply stores, 
are used by many commercial artists 
to color illustrations for publication. 
They come in full (18" x 26") and 
half (14" x IT) sheets at an average 
cost of $ 1 5 per full sheet. The range 
of colors and values is astonishing. 

The darker hues don’t allow the 
text to show through very well, so 
we selected four pastel colors. Using 
overlays is relatively simple. Cut out 
a piece of the sheet slightly larger 
than the area to be colored. After 
peeling it from the backing material, 
jay it over the area. Then, with a very 
sharp anise’s knife, just trim away 
the excess. The result is smooth, flat 
color. We made some copies of the 
LaserWriter prints and practiced our 


cutting on them before we did the 
final pieces. 

LET THERE BE SLIDES 

Once our charts were printed and 
colored, it was time to produce the 
final product. Start by photograph¬ 
ing the work. Some tips for success¬ 
ful photo shooting: 

L Use a copy stand. 

2. Provide adequate lighting. (We 
used photo flood lights.) 

3. Use a shutter release cable so 
that you don’t move the camera as 
you cock the shutter. 

4. Take a test roll, with bracketed 
shots. Bracketing means photo¬ 
graphing each graphic at the f-stop 


PRESENTATION POINTERS 

Planning is probably the most difficult 
part of creating a presentation. We’ve found 
ThinkTank 512 particularly helpful for 
scripting and storyboarding. Using Switch¬ 
er to go back and forth between ThinkTank 
and MacPaint, you can outline your talk, 
make rough sketches of each visual and 
paste the sketches into the outline. Then, 
the slide show capabilities of ThinkTank 512 
let you preview your presentation before the 
production work begins. 

In deciding how many visuals you need, 
remember that it's better to have many 
simple screens than a lew complex ones. 
Don't put too much information on one 
slide or transparency. 

Presentation graphics should convey key 
points, the ideas you want your audience to 
take home. As a general rule, limit each 
visual to approximately 15 words; you want 
your audience to listen to you, not read 
your chart. 

Although graphs, charts, diagrams and 
clip-art can spruce up a show and relieve 


A colorued slide created 
entirely in MacDraw. 


indicated by the light meter, photo¬ 
graphing it again with the f-stop one 
step lower, and again with the f-stop 
one step higher. Note the stop for 
each photo. 

When our test roll was processed 
we discovered that the charts had 
light spots; the transparent overlays 
have a slight sheen to them and they 
reflected the light. We sprayed each 
chart with a matte spray (also avail¬ 
able in most art stores). An alterna¬ 
tive to spraying would be to lay a 
sheet of nonglare glass over the 
charts when von photograph them. 

We were also surprised to discover 
that the f-stop one step lower than 
that indicated on the light meter 


the impact of too much text, be sure they 
serve as enhancements, not distractions. 
Keep graphics simple. Where it's necessary 
to include more than three lines on a line 
graph, make more than one slide and 
highlight that portion of the graph that is of 
current interest. Instead of countless bars 
across the screen, use stacked bars. The 
critical component of a pie chart can be 
exploded. Once you've decided what to 
include in each screen, concentrate on 
creating visual continuity throughout the 
presentation. Lines, boxes, icons and color 
can be used as unifying elements. 

If all this sounds overwhelming, then 
start small. Limit your first presentation to 
black and white graphics. Don’t wony 
about following rules — most of it is plain 
common sense. Trial and error will be your 
best teacher. If, along the way. you need a 
little guidance, there are numerous books 
available. Presentation Graphics on the 
Macintosh , by Steve Lambert, should give 
you all the inspiration you need. 


62MACUSER JULY 1986 














































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bracketing is so essential. 

THEY SAID IT COULDNT BE DONE 

For less than $200 (including film 
and processing), we produced 40 
professional-quality slides* The orga¬ 
nization informed us that the presen¬ 
tation was well received. We did it 
all with the Mac — in color. 

MEETING YOUR NEEDS 

Since we did this project accord¬ 
ing to tight specifications, there was 
little room for creativity. For your 
presentations, there are many alter¬ 
natives to consider. 

For example, you can add some 
pizazz with clip-art. There's an in¬ 
credible variety of such art available 
for the Mac and, happily, much of it 
is quite good. The Mac An Dept., 
CAichAn Publications and MacMmt- 
orics come to mind. 

For presentations that include 
business graphics (charts, graphs and 
so on), use a program like Microsoft 
Chart , Excel or Jazz to create your 
graphic and copy it into the Clip¬ 
board* Exit the program, bring up 
MacDraw, and paste the graphic into 
a Draw document. Each component 
of the graphic will become a Mac- 
Draw object. (For example, when a 
pie chart from Excel is brought into 
MacDraiv, each piece of the pie is 
composed of three objects: an arc 
and two straight lines. Such a chart 
is quite small, occupying only a 
quarter of a page or less. To magnify 
it, first SELECT ALL, then GROUP all 
objects, and finally, grab the corner 
of the graph and stretch it. You can 
now enhance it.) 

If you need color overlays for very 
small areas, or if you'd like to experi¬ 
ment with a variety of colors, look 
into a product called the Computer 
Graphics Color Packet. The package 
includes a sampling of eight Cello- 
Tak color sheers, a graphic knife and 
instructions for using the material. 

TRY TRANSPARENCIES 

Instead of using slides, consider 
making your presentation with an 
overhead projector, using transpar¬ 
encies. Simply print your final 
graphics on overhead film instead of 
(continued mi pcujc 139) 


Microsoft Chart h good 
for creating the basic 
graph, but not for ma¬ 
nipulating it Create the 
plain vanilla pie chart di¬ 
visions within Chart, and 
copy them to the Clip¬ 
board. 




a File ttflt Style runt Layout Arrange fill Llnet Pen 


Chart elements pasted 
into MacDraw can be 
handled as objects. Each 
separate dement of the 
chart can be given a dif¬ 
ferent fill pattern, sized 
independently, and 
stretched using the object 
"handles.” 


Every segment of the 
chart was selected, 
GRQuml, and stretched 
horizontally to introduce a 
perspective effect The 
detached piece was dupli¬ 
cated, filled with black, 
and sent to the back of 
the original, creating an 
instant drop shadow, 
which adds to the three- 
dimensional effect 


Gross Profits per Division 




The final product with color. 


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Smart Eyes (speed reading tutor) £36 

Affinity Microsystems 

Tempo (power user's macro utility) 79 

Aitsys 

Fontastic (create your own fonts) 27 

Arrays/Continental 

Home Accountant (reqs external drive) 52 

Assimilation 

Mac-Memory-Disk (reqs 512k) 22 


MIDI Composer (music recordlplayback) 22. 
Business-Essentials f correspondence) 65. 
Mac-Spell-Right (40,000 word dictionary) 69 
Rig hi-Word (spell checker & thesaurus) 69 


ATI 

Teach Yourself Multi plan 39 

Jazz Training 39 

ExceHramng 39 

Batteries Included 

The Mac Battery Pak (desk accessories) 27 

Borland international 

Sidekick (unprotected) 42 

Sidekick wi? hone!ink 59 

Brainpower 

PowerMath (requires 512k) 52 

StatView (statistics package) .99 

StatView 512+ 179. 

CAMDE 

Nutricatc (diet & nutrition analysis) 49 

Casady Company 

Fluent Fonts (two-disk set) 29 

Central Point Software 

Copy II Mac (includes MacTools) . 20 

Challenger Software 

Mac3D (3D graphics , CAD features) .. 125 

Chang Labs 

Rags to Riches Ledger . 99 

Rags to Riches Receivables (reqs 512k) 99. 
Rags to Riches Payables (reqs 512k) . 99 
Rags to Riches Three Pak 249. 

Creighton Development 

MacSpell + (requires 512k) 55 

DataFood 

Draw Forms (requires MacDraw) 30 

MacForms (requires MacPaint) 42. 

Da (avis 

MacLink (transfer MacfIBM files) . 89 

Digital, etc. 

Maccounlant 99 

Turbo Maccountant 325 

Dow Jones 

Straight Talk. 59 

Spreadsheet Link 62 

Market Manager PLUS.. 125 

Dreams of the Phoenix 
Day Keeper Calendar 27 

Quick & Dirty Utilities Vo! 1 27 

Quick & Dirty Utilities Vol 2 27. 

Twelve-C Financial Desk Accessory 27 

Electronic Arts 

Financial Cookbook 32. 

Deluxe Music Construction Set 32 

Enabling Technologies 

Easy 3D (create solid 3D objects) 59 

Enterset 

Quickpaint (find MacPaint kies last) . 27 

Quickset (icon-driven accessory) 27 

Quick word (word processing tool) 32 


M ac GAS (requires 512k , ex ternat drive) 55 


1st Byte 

Speller Bee (spellingnearntng tool) 839 

Kid Talk ("italking notebook") 39 

Smooth talker (version 20) 49 

Forethought 

Factlinder (freedorm entry) 84 

FileMaker (custom forms & reports) . 105 

Fortnum/Southerrv 

Maclnooga Choo-Choo (reqs. 512k) 21 

MacChemistry 89 

FWB Software 

Hard Disk Util 57 

Great Wave Software 

ConcertWare + (music composition) 39 

Hayden Software 

Da Vinci Buildings 9 

DaVincr Interiors 9 

DaVinci Landscapes 9 

Turbo Turtle ... . . 9. 

I Know It's Here Somewhere 20 

Hayden: Speller 27 

Art Grabber wiih Body Shop 29 

Music Works 46 

Home Design & DaVinci Interiors 52 

Score improvemeni System for the SAT 58 

VideoWorks & Musicworks Bundle 58 

Commercial Interiors & Building Blocks 65 

Hippopotamus Software 
Hippo Computer Almanac 20, 

Ideaform 

MacLabeler (print disk labels) 29 

Innovative Data Design 

Paste-Ease (requires MacPaint) 35 

MacDraft (requires 512k) 139 

Kensington 

Graphic Accents 29 

Type Fonts for Text 29 

Type Fonts for Headlines (reqs 512k) 42 

Layered 

Notes For Excel 42 

Notes. For Jazz 42 

Front Desk (scheduling & organizer) 77 

Legisoft/Nolo Press 

Will Writer (prepare your own wifi) 27 

Linguists Software 

MacCyrillic 39 

SuperFrench/German/Spanish 39 

Tech (1000 different symbols) . 59. 

MacArabic.. ... 59, 

MacKana'Basic Kanj 59 

MacSemilic/Coptic/Devanagari 59 

MacKorean 59 

MacGreek 59 

Mac Hebrew 59 

Mac Greek/H ebre wt Phonet i c s 89 

Living Videotex! 

ThinkTank 512k (outline processor^ 101, 

Magnum 

McPic - Volume I.. 28, 

McPic - Volume II . 28 

The Slide Show Magician 34 

Manhattan Graphics 

Ready Set Go (requires 512k) 105 

Microsoft 

Flight Simulator special 

Entrepreneur 29 

Learning Multiplan and Chart 39. 

Chart 1,0. 72 

Logo 1.0. 75. 

Basic 2 1 89 

Multiplan 1 1 105. 


File 1 02 . . ,..$111. 

Word 1 05 1U 

Fortran 2 1 ... 169 

Excel 10 . 225 

Miles Computing 

Mac the Knife - Volume 1.21. 

Mac the Knife - Volume II (fonts) 25 

Mac the Knife - Volume III . 27 

Mindscape 

The Perfect Score SAT 47 

Monogram 

Forecast (tax planning) 41 

Dollars & Sense. 

Nevins Microsystems 

Turbocharger (requires 512k). 55 

New Canaan Microcode 

Mac Disk Catalog II (requires 512k) 32 

Odesta 

Helix (requires 512k, external drive) 219 

Paiantir 


MacType (supports Dvorak keyboard) 26, 


MalhFlash (math flash card drills) . 26. , 

WordPiay (crossword puzzles) 26 

Accounts Receivable 69 

General Ledger 69 

Inventory Control .' 69. 

in Touch (communication to emulation). 79 

P8t Software 

Icon Swilcher. . 14. 

icon Fun & Games Library 14 

Icon Business Library 14 

Peachtree 

Back to Basics General Ledger 89 

Accounts Payable . 89 

Accounts Receivable .... . 89. 

Polarware 

Graphics Magician 49. 

Practiaf Computer Applications 

Mac Backup (free upgrades ) ,. . 45. 

ProVUE Development 

OverVUE 2 0 (power-packed database) \ 49. 

QED Information Sciences 

Typing Made Easy 36. 

Rubicon Publishing 

Silver Palate Collection (NY's finestf) 29 

Dinner At Eight (recrpes to wines). 35 

Baton 

BulkMaifer (mailing lists) .. 79. 

Scarborough Systems 

Masterlype (arcade typing tutorial) 25 

Sierra On-Line 

MacQneWrite (cash disbursements) 137 

MacOneWrite (accounts receivable). 137 

Silicon Beach Software 

Accessory Pak 1. 21. 

Silicon Press (printer utility , 512k) . . 42 

Simon & Schuster 

The Mac Art Department 24 

Paper Airplane Construction KiL. 24 

Typing Tutor Ilf > . ,. 35, 

SMB Development 

MacMate (requires 512k) ... . 35, 

SoftStyle 

Color mate Art (color graphic images) 25 

Colormate (color printing utility) 49 

Epstart ..,.. 27, 

Jetstart 27 

Toshstart . 27 

Tlstari. ....... 49 

Laserstarl . 59, 

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Mac Plus to Hayes Smartmodem cable 19 
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Cue ala Systems 

Datasaver AC Power Backup (90 watts) call 
Curtis Manufacturing 

Diamond (6 outlets) . 29 

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Epson 

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Kensington 

External Disk Drive Cover 8 

Mouse way 8 

Mouse Pocket . 8 

Travelling Disk Case 8 

Mac Dust Cover. 9 

Imagewriter (II) Dust Cover ...... 9 

Mouse Cleaning Kil w/Mouse Pocket . 16 

Universal Printer Stand. 17 

Disk Case (holds 36 Mac disks) 19 

Disk Drive Cleaning Kit 19 

Tilt/Swivet . 22 

Polarizing Filter 31 

Surge Suppressor 35 

Starter Pack (includes Tilt/Swivel) 53 

A-B Box 62 

Control Center . 62 

Koala Technologies 

KAT Graphics Tablet 139 

Mac Vision (digitizer) .... 169 

Kraft 

GuickStick (Mac joystick) special 

Micah 

MicahDrive AT (20 Meg internal drive) 1195 

Microsoft 

MacEnhancer 2.0 163 

Mirror Technologies 

MagNet 2Qx External Hard Drive 969 

Mouse Systems 

A+ Optical Mouse 59 

N 2 Products 

Mac to Modem cable (6 feet) 19 

Mac (Plus) to Printer cable (6 feet) \9 

Mac to Transet 1000 cable (9 feet) 19 

Mac Pius adapter cable 19 


Paradise Systems 

Mac 10/20 to Mac Plus adapter cable $19 
Mac 10 (W megabyte hard disk) 599 
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PBJ Software 

Switch Box 36 

PKt 

McD 800k External Drive 285 

Summagraphics 

MacTablct 6"x9".329 

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Systems Control 

MacGard (surge protection) . 55 

Thunderware 

Thunderscan (high-resolution digitizer) 175 

Video 7 

MouseStrck 39 

Western Automation 

DASCH RAMdisk 500k 299 

DASCH RAMdisk 1000k 359 

DASCH RAMdisk 2000k 435. 

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Fuji 3 V/ Disks (box of 10) 19 

Sony 316* Disks (o ox of 10) 19 

MAXELL 3VE' Disks (box ofiO) . 20. 

3M 3Va" Disks (box of 10) 21 

Verbatim 314* Disks (box of 10) 22 

Memorex 2V? Disks (box of 10) 23 

Double-sided Diskettes 
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Sony S'/s” Double-sided Disks (10 ). 29 

MAXELL 3V/ Double-sided Disks (10) 30. 

Verbatim 314 N Double-sided Disks (10) 31 

3M 3W Double-sided Disks (10) 33 

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Source Telecomputing 

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Floppidene Drive Care Kit 19 

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MacPak Complete Care System 29 

Clean Image Ribbon Co. 

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Computer Coverup 

External Disk Drive Cover 4 

Imagewriter (II) Caver 8 

Mac (Pius) & Keyboard (two covers) 10 

Diversions 

Underware Ribbon 9 

Colorpens 10 

Jumbo Colorpens 13 

GoforPack (includes Colorpens) 19 

Environmental Software Company 
The Clutch (holds 8 disks) 9 

MAC ATTIRE (Rip-stop nylon dust covers) 
External Drive Cover (400k & 800k) 

Numeric Keypad Cover 7 

Numeric Turbo Cover 8 

Imagewriter (If) Cover 11 


Wide Imagewnter Cover $13. 

Mac (Plus) & Keyboard Cover .. 15 

Laserwriter Cover . 17. 

Mac (Plus) & HD20 & Keyboard Cover 18 

I/O Design 

Imagewriter Color Transfer Ribbon 10 

Imageware 45 

I mage ware If (Imagewriter fi case) 49 

Imageware wide. 49 

Mac in ware Plus (Mac Plus carrying case) 69 
Innovative Concepts 

Flip & File Micro (holds 25 disks) . 9 
Flip & File (holds 40 disks) 18 

Innovative Technologies 
The Pocket Pak (holds 6 disks) 10 

The Easel (holds 20 disks) * 14. 

The Disk Directory (holds 32 disks) ... 21 
Kalmar Designs 


Teakwood Roll-lop Case (holds 45 disks) 14 
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Magnum 

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Moustrak 

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Moustrak Pad (large 9*x1 V) . .... 9. 

Imagewriter Pad 12 

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Imagewriter Color Ribbons 5 

Imagewriter Ribbons Six Pack 27 

Imagewriter Rainbow Six Pack 27 

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PFS:Fiie/Repon. S99. 

Springboard 

Art a la Mac Vol 1-People and Places 23. 

Art a la Mac Vol 2-Variety Pack . 23 

State of the Art 

Electric Checkbook . 42. 

Symmetry 

Picture Base (dtp an manager r 5 12k) 48 

T/Maker 

Click Art Persona! Graphics 29 

Click Art Publications 29 

Click Art Letters 29 

Click Art Effects 29 

CtickOn Worksheet 46 

Target Software 


MacLightning (reqs 572k, external drive) 53 

Teles Software 

Business Filevision (512k, external drive) 219 


Think Educational 

Mind Over Mac 28 

MacEdge II (math & reading) 28 

TML Systems 

TML Pascal 69 

Vldex 

MacCaiendar find, reminder system), . 52. 

GAMES 

Activision 

Championship Slar League Baseball 22 
Hacker (you're on your own!) 21 

Mind Shadow (Who am t?). 21 

Borrowed Time (murder mystery) . 27 

Alter Ego (become someone else} ... 36 

Ann Arbor Softworks 

Grid Wars (3D graphic arcade) 22 

ArtWOrx 

Bridge 4.0 ........ 2V 

Bantam Electronics 

Sherlock Holmes: Another Bow .. 27 

Blue Chip 

Millionaire (stock market). . 35 

Tycoon (commodities) 35. 

Baron (real estate) .35 

Squire (personal finance, reqs 512k) 35 

Brainpower 

Think Fast (improves recall) . 23, 

Chip wits (robot simulation) .26. 

Broderburtd Software 

Lode Runner (you’ll never steep!) . 24, 

Ancient Art of War (military strategy) .. 27, 

CBS 

Murder by the Dozen (mystery) . 25. 

Electronic Arts 

Golden Oldies Vol 1 (software classics) 24. 
One on Onedr J vs Larry Bird (reqs. 512k) 27 
Pinball Construction Set. 27 

Epyx 

Rogue (the mainframe classicf) 24 


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# Two-button joystick 

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Microsoft Flight Simulator 
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for a spin, you'll find Flight Simulator 
to be the most realistic and 
challenging program of its kind. 

• Includes 116 different airports 

• Fly the U.S , Canada. Mexico and 
the Caribbean 

* 512k or Mac Plus recommended 


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Temple of Apshai Trilogy (4 levels) 24 

Winter Games (Olympic events) . 24, 

Hayden Software 

Masterpieces (jigsaw puzzles} . 9 

Perplexx & Word Challenge II . 24. 

Sargon III (9 levels of chess) . 29 

Intercom 

Difficulty levels shown in italics 

Seastalker (junior) . 23- 

Ballyhoo (standard) . 23. 

Cutthroats (standard)........ .. 23 

Enchanter (standard) . 23. 

Hitchhiker's Gurde (standard ),.. 23. 

Pianetfali (standard) 23 

Wishbringer (standard) . 23 

The Witness (standard) . 23. 

Zork I (standard) ... 23. 

Zork II (advanced) . 26. 

Zork 111 (advanced) . 26 

A Mind Forever Voyaging (advanced) 26 

Infidel (advanced )—. 26. 

Sorcerer (advanced) .. . .. 26 

Suspect (advanced; 26 

Deadline (expert) . 29 

Spellbreaker (expert) -. 29 

Starcross (expert) . 29 


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fnvisiclues (hint booklets) , 6 

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Fusillade (arcade-maze) . . 21, 

MacAttack (3-D tank simulation) 27 

Harrier Strike (3-D flight simulation) . 27 

MacWars (3-D space simulation) . 27 

Mlndscape 

Rambo: First Blood Part II.. 24 

James Bond 007; 'A View to a Kill" .... 24 

The Luscher Profile... . 24 

Stephen King's The Mist™.. . 24 

Racier (converse with your Mac!) _ 27 

Balance of Power (world politics) 30 

Brataecus (requires 512k) . 30 

D£ja Vu (murder mystery) . 33 

Origin Systems 

Exodus: Ultima 111 (fantasy adventure) >. 38 

FBI Software 

Strategic Conquest (war strategy) . 29 

Fokker TriPlane Flight Simulator ...... 35 

Penguin 

Crimson Crown (segue/ fo above) 24 

The Quest (beware of the dragon/; + , 24 

Xyphus (role playing adventure) . 24 

Practical Computer Applications 

MacGolf (requires 512k) ..— . 36 

Psion 

Psion Chess (3D and mufti-lingual) 31 

Scarborough Systems 

Make Millions (business simulation) .... 29 

Sierra On-Line 

Frogger (classic video gameJ 24 

Championship Boxing .. 24 

Ultima II (role-playing adventure} >. 35 

Silicon Beach Software 
Airborne! (digitized-sound war game) 20. 

Enchanted Scepters (text & graphics) 21 

Sir-Tech 

Mac Wizardry (fantasy) . . 36 

Spectrum Holobyte 

GATO (submarine simulation) ... 26 

Orbiter (requires 512k) . 27 

Tellstar North Level I (reqs. 512k) . 27 

Unicom 

Futuria (sci-ft adventure) . — 24 

Utopia (sc/ence fantasy game) 24. 

Animal Kingdom (ages 6-12) . 27 

Decimal Dungeon (math, ages 9 and up) 27 
Fraction Action (arcade style math game) 27 
Mac Robots (pre-school program} 27 

Videx 

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TELECOMMUNICATIONS 



Microphone, Red Ryder and Smartcom offer a 


telecommunication circus . 


COMPUTE RUSE IS GREAT STUFF, 
Take some computer term, stick the 
word “power 1 ' in front of it, and 
you’re suddenly a “power user/ 1 
Let's consider, for example, “power 
telecommunications.” Has a nice 
ring to it, it's sort of obvious what it 
is, and yet, it sounds son of forbid¬ 
ding* Something for hackers, not for 
the rest of us. Right? 

Not any more. Microphone, Snmrt- 
com U and Red Ryder , the three 
telecommunications programs dis¬ 
cussed here, arc for all of us. They 
have features to start even the newest 
telecommunicator oft' on the right 
toot. And they have features to satis¬ 
fy the most demanding expert. 

Much of their ease of use comes 
from their ability to automate the 
entire telecommunication process. 
Neophytes can use the procedure 
examples provided, while more expe¬ 
rienced users will create their own 
procedures. 

Two of these programs (Mictv- 
phone and Red Ryder) can automati¬ 


cally create custom procedure docu¬ 
ments on demand. All three have 
power that IBM PC users can only 
dream of And all are excellent pro¬ 
grams. You’re going to have a hard 
time deciding which one to use. 

PRECOCIOUS 

Software Ven til re’s Miovphon e, 
the newest of these programs, is 
possibly the most powerful* Its ex¬ 
tensive (and complicated) script (the 
Microphone version of a macro proce¬ 
dure) facility and its many options 
make it a power user’s delight. Still, 
it has many features designed to 
make tt easy for a novice to get 
started. New users need not shy 
away from this one. 

Microphone was written by Dennis 
Brothers, of McicTEP (die very first 
Mac telecommunications program) 
fame, and the program reflects his 
“power user” orientation. For nov¬ 
ices, Microphone can appear quite 
intimidating at first glance, but the 
manual (written by someone named 
Neil L. Shapiro) will calm nhc wor¬ 
ried novice, and rrhe examples pro¬ 
vided on the disk fire uxcelltpr. For 
instance, there is ;i .sample Compu¬ 
Serve document on the disk. When 
opened, a “Log*On” burton appears 


by RobertR . Wiggins 


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at the bottom of the screen. Ail die 
user needs to do is click on this 
button {setting the baud race first if 
other than 300 is desired). The 
prewritten script then begins. It asks 
for the phone number, dials it, and 
gets to the “User ID:" prompt (re- 
gardless of whether die number giv¬ 
en was a CompuServe number, a 
Telenet number, or a Tymnet num¬ 
ber). Then it asks for the user ID, 
sends it, then asks for the password, 
sends that, and finishes logging on. 
Enjoy your session on CompuServe 
and, when finished, just click on the 
^Log-Off" button. 

The information that the “Log- 
On 75 script requested is saved to disk 
so that subsequent log-ons will not 
require any action on the part of the 
user besides clicking the “Log-On” 
button. Similar sample documents 
and scripts are supplied for The 
Source, Delphi, Dow Jones, and 
MCI Mail. 

To help novices write dieir own 
scripts, Microphone has a very power¬ 
ful feature called WATCH ME. Just 
select it off the Script menu, and 
Microphone will watch the sequences 
entered, as well as the prompts from 
the other system, and use these to 
generate a script. When done, select 
END WATCH ME and the script is 
ready to use next time. The scripts 
generated by WATCH ME arc some¬ 
times less than optimal, but they are 
functional, and can be cleaned up 
later when the user has gathered 
some experience and confidence* 

But the real beauty ai' Microphone 
is in its power user features. Scripts 
can be called in three ways: via on¬ 
screen, user-definable buttons along 


the bottom of the screen {up to 10, 
depending on the widths of the 
names of the scripts); via COM- 
MAND-key sequences (Microphone al¬ 
lows every key to be used except TAB, 
CAPS LOCK, SHIFT. OPTION, ENTER 
BACKSPACE and RETURN, although 
since the COMMAND key is also used 
to send control codes used by most 
systems, not all keys are practical for 
use}; or via a menu item in the 
Scripts menu {and with the new 
scrolling menus the Mac Plus pro¬ 
vides, the number of scripts that can 
be put in the menu is so great that 
anyone who exceeds it should be 
writing terminal programs, not us¬ 
ing them). 

Then there’s the script language 
itself. It’s almost a programming 
language, with commands like IF* 
THEN, ELSE, WHILE, UNTIL, and 
WHEN. .And as the abundant exam¬ 
ples show, virtually any sequence of 
events can be handled by a script. 

Still not enough power? How 
about the new IK Xmodem? Al¬ 
though it’s nor in widespread use, it 
makes Microphone to Microphone 


transfers 40 to 50 % faster than 
regular 128-byte Xmodem transfers. 
Or Ymodem, which allows groups 
of files to be received (unfortunately, 
this is a rcccive-only feature)? Or 
autoreccive when receiving from an¬ 
other Mac running Microphone ? 

Power users will quickly discover 
the power of the INSTALL BUTTON 
script command. For instance, a 
script which logs onto CompuServe 
can install buttons for scripts used 
when on CompuServe (log on, get 
mail, log off, etc.). One of the but¬ 
tons installed could be for a script 
called DELPHI. Clicking on that but¬ 
ton would invoke a script to log 
onto Delphi and change the buttons 
to correspond to scripts associated 
with Delphi. One of these buttons 
could be for a script called DOW 
JONES. And so on. 

Microphone has a few flaws, but 
remember that this is its first release. 
The program is a youngster com¬ 
pared to the others. Keep in mind 
that the early releases of Smart com 
and Red Ryder were nowhere near 
the programs they are now. For a 
first release. Microphone is a superior 
product. And Software Venture’s 
announced upgrade policy means 
that getting even better versions will 
be relatively painless. Bug fixes and 
fine tuning updates will be provided 
at cost {$5 to S1Q), while major 
enhancements will be rarer, but 
more expensive. 

Some of the dialog boxes are busy 
to the point of confusion, the 
VT100 emulation is not as complete 
as could be (for example, there is no 
highlighting support), and the pro¬ 
gram is unable to quit to a mini- 
finder. Also, the screen updating 



Red Ryder in VT10Q 
mode on an IBM main¬ 
frame, Note the correct 
use of boldface (or Inten¬ 
sified) type. No other Mac 
terminal does VT1D0 as 
well. 


70MACU&ER JULY 19 86 


















































5m art com totally 

iooThbased autopflot (com¬ 
mand language) creation 
dialog. H cant be much 
easier than this, 



doesn't keep up above 1200 baud 
and slows down even more during 
script execution. But these arc minor 
quibbles compared to the power it 



POWERFUL 

The best wtW to sum up Red 
Ryder is powerful. Red Ryder began 
as a AUkRER variant, written in 
BASIC, with a highly entertaining 
and slightly scandalous manual writ¬ 
ten by the author, YY'ar Buchanon. 
Red Ryder was also one of the first 
shareware products tor the Mac, 
meaning that it is distributed for 
free, but if it is found suitable and 
use till, the registration fee is to be 
sent in to the author. When Wat 
passed away, his friend and partner 
Scott Watson picked up the baton 
and wrote an application version of 
Red Ryder which has metamorphised 
so many times that even YVat might 
not recognize it, except tor the folksy 
nature of the manual. Scott has kept 
at it with a dogged determination, 
and the current version of Red Ryder 


(8.0) incorporates so many features 
that it might be the most powerful 
terminal program for the Mac once 
all of its features can be uncovered. 

For novices, there is the quite 
readable manual, although as with 
most Mac programs, few will read it. 
Most Red Ryder functions arc fairly 
obvious. The only difficulty most 
first-time users will have is setting 
the baud rate, except for true novices 
who will try to click on the baud rate 
(and it will change!). Since Red 
Ryder is distributed as shareware, 
and many users will never see the 
distribution disk, examples are hard¬ 
er to come by, but Red Ryder does 
have a feature similar to Microphones 
WATCH ME Called WRITE A PROCE¬ 
DURE FOR ME. Just select the menu 
item and Red Ryder will watch what 
goes across the line in both direc¬ 
tions and create a procedure which 
can be used in the future to duplicate 
the sequence. 

For power users, Red Ryder is 
chock full of goodies. It allows up to 
30 macros, which can be called up 


TIME WAITS FOR NO PROGRAM 


No sooner does a telecommunication 
program come out than its next version is 
rumored or announced. Both Red Ryder 
and Smartcom II have had many releases (5 
for Smartcom, more than to for Red), By 
the time you read this, it is likely that new 
versions will be out. 

In fact, no sooner did we complete this 
review than a beta version of Red Ryder, 
version 9,0 arrived! A night-long examina¬ 
tion turned up a bit too much instability to 
include it In this review. However, we can 
let you in on some of its new features. 


The most important changes are to the 
procedure language. Several commands 
are no longer supported or have been 
replaced, and many new commands have 
been added. Many of the new commands 
add graphic effects. Users now can set up 
their own pull-down menus and dialog 
boxes. Other commands will allow batch 
uploading, downloading and message 
sending. And much more. Most of this stuff 
is for the real power users, but everyone 
will benefit from the procedures that can 
and will be developed. 


either through the keyboard or via 
on-screen buttons. Only ten can be 
visible and available at a time, but by 
selecting scroll arrows in the Macro 
Status Bar, any of the three sets of 
10 can be made active. Macros can 
also call Procedures, further enhanc¬ 
ing their power. And starring with 
version 8.0, the macro buttons can 
have labels (previously, the actual 
macro text appeared in the button). 

Red Ryder also It as a host mode, 
allowing it to be manipulated re¬ 
motely to send and/or receive files, 
and while in host mode it allows 
ASCII text transfers to be appended 
to existing files. For file transfer. Red 
Ryder hilly supports Kcrmit and sup¬ 
ports CompuServe B protocol for 
downloads, in addition to Xmodem. 

Red Ryders VT100 terminal emu¬ 
lation is excellent, fully supporting 
all VT100 features. It also supports a 
40 x 12 display size featuring very 
large type. That should be useful to 
the visually impaired. Red Ryder sup- 
pons RLE graphics (for display 
only), so that weather maps and 
other pictorial data available on 
some of die major on-line services 
can be viewed. Red Ryder also has an 
option for using the OPTION key as 
the CONTROL key (most terminal 
programs use the COMMAND key, 
and so can Red Ryder if that is 
desired) which allows all of die 
Command- key shortcuts in the 
menus to be available. And as an 
added incentive to get users to regis¬ 
ter, a license for Red Ryder includes 
Red Ryder Host, an excellent BBS 
system, at no additional charge. 

In short. Red Ryder includes just 
about every feature that any Red 
Ryder user asked for. This makes it a 
very flexible tool, but with flexibility 
comes confusion, since the number 
of choices can sometimes be over¬ 
whelming, especially for a new user. 
This is Red Ryder's biggest draw¬ 
back. However, once mastered. Red 
Ryder provides enough options to 
satisfy the most rugged power user. 

PRETTY 

The prettiest of die three is Smart- 
com IL Some purists consider Snmrt- 
corn II to be tne quintessential Mac¬ 
intosh application. The interface is 
very visual, with icons for die major 


JULV 1986 M AC USE R 71 



























































THREE-RING CIRCUITS 



Smancom ll 

Microphone 

Nad Ryder S.Q 

Commend Languge 




Ease ol USB 

Excellent 

Very Good 

Very Good 

Power 

Excellent 

Excellent 

Excellent 

Number ol key equivalent! 


47 possible til 

30 (10 at a time) 

Number ol on screen buttons 

Nona 

10 maximum 

30 (scrollable - 10 at a time) 

Complex statements 

Yes 

Yes 

Yes 

Automatic procedure generation 

No 

Yet 

Yes 

Unattended operation 

Yet 

Yes 

Yes 

D*im Capture 




Size of screen butter 

Available memory 

Available memory 

User set -1 99 screens 

Add to taxi fir a 

Always 

During single capture (2) 

in host mode 

Echo lo printer 

Y« 

Yes 

Yes 

Print teJtt selection 

Yes 

Yes 

Yes 1 

Full cut and paste support 

Yes 

Yes 

Yes 

Protocol* Sup parted 




XMODEM 

Yes 

Ym 

Vos 

CRC XMODEM 

Ho 

Yes (can be disabled) 

Yes (can ha disabled) 1 

MacTorrnlnat XMODEM 

Yei 

Yes 

No 

IK XMODEM 

No 

Ybb (can be disabled) 

No 

CompuServe B 

No 

No 

Yes (download only) 

YMOOEM 

NO 

Yes (download only) 

No 

KERMfT 

No 

Na 

Yes | 

Hayes Verification 

Yes 

No 

No 

Terminal Emulation 




TTY 

Yet 

Yes 

Yea 

VT52 

Yes 

Yet 

Yes 

VT100 

Very Good (saaiexi) 

Fair (tee text) 

Excell ant (see taxi) 

40X12 screen size 

No 

No 

Yes 

i 80x24 screen slit 

Yet 

Yes 

Yes 

132x24 screen size 

No 

Yes 

Yes | 

Miscellaneous Feature* 




; Graphics support 

Proprietary formal (3) 

None 

RLE graphics (3) 

On-screen timer 

No 

No 

Yes | 

On screen transfer timer 

Yes 

Yes 

Yes 

On-screen help 

Yes 

No 

No 1 

|1) Use ol aH keys tot Scripts me* 
12} Wnfle a capture file It open, as 
(3> Use at Hayes graphics require* 

[li 

fit 

I? 

f 

» unusable 

, but once closed it cannot be added to. 

tricorn 11 RLE graphics is a standard graphics formal. 


functions, and even the process of 
writing an autopilot (the Smartam 
version of a macro procedure) is 
icon-based. Its dialog boxes arc well 
laid-out and easy to understand, vet 
not insulting to the power user. 

Smancom II is from Hayes, the 
doyen of micro telecommunications 
companies, and not surprisingly 
works best with Hayes modems, 
although it can be made to work 
with any Hayes-compatible modem 
(some of its features, such as the cute 
phone dialing animation, will not 
work in those cases). And since 
Hayes has a reputation for quality to 
maintain, it has expended consider¬ 
able effort on Smancom II (version 
2.2A is the fifth release since the 
product was introduced in 1985), 


Novices find SmartconC s ieon-ori- 
ented interface makes getting started 
simple. Click on the phone icon and 
a dialog box appears for entry of the 
phone number. Animation tracks the 
call progress, and when the connec¬ 
tion is established the phone icon 
inverts, and it’s ready to rip. To hang 
up, just dick on the phone icon 
again. 

Writing autopilots (Hayes' term 
for procedures or scripts) is just as 
easy. Select NEW.,, from the Autopi¬ 
lot menu and a dialog box appears 
with icons along the bottom. Click 
on the PHONE-ON icon and the auto¬ 
pilot sequence “Dial,., 15 appears in 
the dialog box. Click on the TIMING 
icon and a dialog box appears where 
the event to be waited for can be 


selected, such as “Look for,..’', and 
rhe prompt being looked for can be 
entered. 

In fact, once all the communica¬ 
tions and terminal characteristics are 
set, Smartcmn II users need rarely 
pull down a menu. There's even an 
on-line help facility. Just click on the 
question-mark icon to get a dialog 
box showing all the available help 
items. 

For power users, several features 
have been added to Smancom II in 
version 2,2 A that were sorely lacking 
in the previous versions (bur Hayes 
was listening). The most important 
addition is keyboard invocation of 
autopilots. In version 2.2A, autopi¬ 
lots can be assigned ro OPTION key 
combinations (only letters can be 
used, limiting the number to 26, but 
since autopilots arc connected with a 
document and autopilots can “Skip 
to" other documents, the number of 
keyed autopilots can be increased). 
The OPTION key invocation is also 
intelligent: If an autopilot consists of 
only one line which is an “Autotype” 
statement, the autopilot dialog box 
is not displayed at the bottom of the 
screen, and that autopilot is loaded 
into memory so that subsequent in¬ 
vocations will be instantaneous. 

Other features in Snmrtcom II ver¬ 
sion 2.2A include the ability to des¬ 
ignate an autopilot as “Auto Star¬ 
tup,” to be executed when the 
document is launched from the desk¬ 
top (this autopilot can also be 
“Skipped to" from orher autopilots); 
support for a startup document (if a 
document named “Smartcom Star¬ 
tup” is available, then it will be 
opened when Smancom is launched, 
and if it contains an “Auto Startup” 
autopilot, that will be executed); 
baud-ratc detection (if the modem 
connects at a baud rate other than 
that which the document is set for, 
the document is reset to the actual 
baud rate) and baud-rate retention 
(when a document is set for 2400 
baud and the modem lias fallen back 
to 1200, the next dialing attempt 
will still be made at 2400); full 
VT100 emulation (except that high¬ 
lighted text is displayed as reverse 
video). 

Not only power users will apprcci- 
(continued on page 138) 


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ENTERTAINMENT 

















WHAT A MUG! 

Making faces has always been a 
way for people to pass time. Some¬ 
times it has been for fun. And some¬ 
times it’s been serious. Police depart¬ 
ments regularly use “Identikits” to 
make illustrations of the faces of 
people they wish to find. 

Making faces takes on a new di¬ 
mension with the help of an innova¬ 
tive program and the Mac Mac-a- 
AUuj, from Shaherazam Software, is 
both entertaining and fun. It pro¬ 
duces faces from basic facial features 
and details. Users have numerous 
features to pick and choose from. 
There is so much data that separate 
system and program disks are re¬ 
quired. Since lots of graphics are 
involved (especially in the feature 
files), a 512K or larger Mac and an 
external drive is a must. Mnc-n-Aiuif 
is actually written in BASIC" and the 
package includes a runtime BASIC 
module, which means that users do 
nor have to supply their own copy of 
BASIC. Indeed, if w e didn't tell you 
that, you might never find out why 
the program appears to run so slow- 


Mac-a-Mug can help 


you make faces you 


can be proud of. 


lv! And its slow,nearly intolerably so. 

A FACE APPEARS 

Clicking on the Moc-n-AUffj icon 
brings up a picture frame screen 
(where the actual creation will take 
place) with sets of scroll bars to 
either side of it. At least they look 
like scroll bars. Users have a shock in 
store for themselves when they actu¬ 
ally use them, however. 

The scroll bars (where the feature 
selections are made) are Mnc-a- 
Mttjfs main operational device. Each 
scroll bar unit includes different 
choices of features, each covering a 
different area—eyes, mouths, heads, 
beards, sideburns and so on. 

The scroll bars operate in a very 
odd, jerky manner, not at all like 


regular scroll bars. Their behavior 
seems ro be the result of what they 
do. A lot happens every time they're 
used, and since it happens in BASIC, 
the actions are not as smooth as they 
would be using the Mac's ROM 
directly. 

Click on a scroll bar to go through 
its selections. As you move through 
the selections, the different items 
covered bv that scroll bar show up in 
the picture frame, where the features 
are projected like slides on a screen. 
The area of the face being worked on 
changes with each scroll. Each selec¬ 
tion automatically replaces what was 
there (of its type) before it. 

The scroll bars move in incre¬ 
ments when using the scroll arrows. 
Unless the bar portion of the scroll is 
used to slow down the action, the 
files seem to zip by. Mouse clicks 
need to be very firm and precise if 
you plan on getting what you want. 
And the clicks do not seem to record 
at times. Use can be pretty frustrat¬ 
ing. The actual graphics consist of 
letters in fonts (really, and theyVc 
big fonts!). 


JULY 198 6 MACU5ER75 












MAKING FACES 


TO SAVE 

There is no SAVE option in the 
menus, ant) so the only way to save 
your creation is through the Clip¬ 
board. By selecting the COPY TO THE 
CLIPBOARD option, you save the 
current face onto the Clipboard. 
This is only short-term saving. For 
long-term saving, the image must be 
transferred from the Clipboard into 
the Scrapbook or MacPaint . Keep in 
mind that since faces consist of parts 
of fonts, those fonts must be in the 
System file in order for MacPaint to 
re-create the face. Put a copy of 
MacPaint on the program disk. 

All this can easily be bypassed by 
simply screen dumping the face cre¬ 
ations to MacPaint documents on 
the disk using command-SHIFT-3, 
later to be transferred onto your 
MacPaint disk. Since the whole im¬ 
age is saved as it appears, not as 
carefully positioned letters of special 
fonts (which is what it really is), it 
can be modified by a copy of Mac¬ 
Paint that does not have access to 
the special Mnc-a-Mujf fonts. 

To view a piece saved to the 
Clipboard, select the show CLIP* 
BOARD option. The face being creat¬ 
ed on-screen is then replaced by the 
saved face in the picture frame for 
about 3 seconds. After that, the face 
being worked on reappears. To de¬ 
lete an item from the Scrapbook 
enter COMMAND X to cut 

FACIAL FEATURES 

Male and female features arc ar¬ 
ranged in a strange manner on die 
scroll bars. Male features begin on 
the left hand side of each bar going 
towards the center, with female fea¬ 
tures beginning on the right hand 
side of the bars, working from there 
towards die center. Thus, male and 
female features can easily be mixed if 
desired. In light of this, the Sex 
menu seems unnecessary. Its only 
purpose seems to be to reset the 
scroll bars to the left for male and 
right for female features. 

Mac-a-Mitff includes a very useful 
option called Refresh. When creat¬ 
ing a face, the selections overlap. For 
instance, eyeglasses overlap heads. 
Mat-a-Mug's capability for handling 
this is amazing. A dick on the Re¬ 
fresh button at the bottom of the 




7 











Head - 

Begin with your head selection. 



Nose - \2 

A nose to match. 



Moustache - 7 

The hairy lip, known as 
the moustache. 


picture frame allows the features to 
be shown without a trace of overlap¬ 
ping. A menu option lets the user 
decide if the activation of this feature 
should be left to the Mac (in the 



mrnim 

Erjebroius - 7 

Next, search for the perfect eyebrows. 




Beard - 7 
Finally, a beard finishes 
the Mac-a-Mug face. 

Auto mode), or manually done 
through the Refresh button. Auto 
Refresh causes refreshing to auto¬ 
matically take place after every selec¬ 
tion without clicking the Refresh 


76MACUSER JULY 1986 




































































J 


3 


1 



mim® 

Eyes « it 

Eyes to match. 



- 7 


4 


-L 


Ears - 3 

Wow, the ears. 


is; 


71 


17 


mmm 

Chin -13 
A chin to round it all out 




Next, glasses for the look. 



Hair Color selection button giving 
the option of light and dark hair. 
These two options affect all the hair 
selections made within a creation. If 
dark hair color is selected for the 
head, the eyebrows will also be dark. 
There is no way that both light and 
dark selections can be used simulta¬ 
neously for the same creation. 

One of the best features is that 
faces can be refined further in Mac¬ 
Paint. This allows a limitless number 
of variation. Here is where the cre¬ 
ator can make tilings as real to life as 
possible. The best and easiest way to 
do this is to put a copy of MacPaint 
on the Program disk. It is simple to 
transfer a face by using COPY and 
PASTE commands from die Clip¬ 
board or Scrapbook. Another advan¬ 
tage to this ability is that you can 
now use the LaserWriter to print 
your creation instead of an Image 
Writer. After the MacPaint transforma¬ 
tion takes place, the possibilities arc 
endless. And, of course, you can now 
paste your creations into other pro¬ 
grams. 

Since ail graphics are held within 
fonts, they can be edited using any of 
the available font editors and moved 
to and from the system disk with 
Apple's Font/DA Mover, This lets 
users alter the features on the scroll 
bars. With scroll bar modification, 
this means that “feature libraries” are 
in die future of this program. 

Now it’s time to go ahead and 
make some of the best faces at every¬ 
one without even witching a muscle 
of your own. 1^ 


MAC-A-MUG: 

Overall Rating: 

Follows Mac Interface: 
Printed Documentation: 
On-Screen Help: 
Performance: 

Support: 

Consumer Value: 


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The finishing touches (beard on the chin portion] were made in MacPaint. Voilal the final creation. 
This te what the Mac-a-Mug screen actually looks like. Note how the scroll bars denote the position of 
the selections. Do you know this man? 


button. In manual refresh mode, 
refreshing is controlled by the cre¬ 
ator. 

To allow the most possible differ¬ 
ences among characteristics for dif¬ 


ferent people, there is a Miscella¬ 
neous scroll bar where things like 
hcadware, wrinkles, jcwclcry and 
other details reside as options. To 
complete the picture, there is also a 


Comments: A disk full of creative entertain¬ 
ment. Best Feature: The refresh capability 
allows the refinement of overlapping fea¬ 
tures to occur spectacularly. Worst Fea¬ 
ture: The operation of its scroll bars is very 
slow and awkward. List Price: $59,95. 
Published by Shaherazam, PO Box 26731, 
Milwaukee, Wl 53226. (414) 442-7503. 


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MacDraft 139 00 

Kalmar Dwatane 

TmAwsxkp PoX-Top Disk Casas 

Micro CtWrwtjTtoUi 45 3 W* Otaks) 1 * 00 

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Living Vid« Tfcjct 

Thtnk>*nk S12K 99.00 

Lotus Jaii 2 j0> 289. DO 

Ulcrpearft Flight Si muletor {torsion f.0) 32. DO 
Excel 22* 00 

Hands On Excel 32 00 

OD*> Inc. ConwItflnWtoralan 10) 109 00 

Sales CmiuHAnl ^to^ron 2 0} 149.00 

PnoVAJE Development 

Ova>VUE20 149.00 

fl^ngulir ^oftnn InlerlaCQ 119.00 


Buslnase FiiaVisrtjn 


195.00 


Backup & Utility Software 


Apple Computer 

Swftcher Construe!ton Sal 

AaaJm Nation Practu 

Work N h Print or MIDI Composer 

Mac Memory Disk or Mac Maun Ttecks 

Guardian 

Central fVjtn Software 
CoftfllWac 

Computer Application■, Inc. 

]] ins Mac V2 0 (Appta )[ Emulator) 
Crystal Canyon Computing, Inc, 

The Mac Librarian 
Dreamt Of Th* Photnk 
Quick A Dirty Unities Mo(. t or 2 
FWB Software Hard Disk Ull< 

Hayden MUD (MicroMind WiHTy Dtek) 
Hippopotamus Software Hippo-Lock 
Idsaform Mac Labeler ptarafcm 2 0) 
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MIcroAnslytt MaeZap Option 4 I) 

Hrvlna Ulcrotyilamt 
TurboCharger (torsion 2.0) 

New Canaan Microcode 
Mac Disk Catalog li (Si2K) 

PBI Software Icon Switcher 
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myDiskLabele r V2 0 34 00 

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Affinity Microsystem* 

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Hippo-C Lore! 1 75.00 

Hipp&C Level 2 215 00 

Kriye Syelame Moon! H900 

Malnarey MacASM 75,00 

Mega max , Inc. Megamax C Compiler 175 00 
Mlcrowft Microsoft Basic (tonio* 2 f) 80.00 
Microsoft Logo 75 00 

Microsoft Fortran Comptier 109 00 

Modula Corporation MecModute-2 90 00 

P*c*n Software 

MAcAdvanrege: UCSD Pascal 69 00 

MflcAdvantage: 08000 As&em btar 69 00 

Portable Software PortoAPL V3,Ca 199.00 
Softwwka Ltd, Softworks C ComhMof 69 00 

Sofiwurke Poraa nai Basic 69.00 

Scttwortg Buainese Besic 209.00 

Zadcor. Ina ZBas*c 65 DO 


Communications Software 


A#gi« Software MiffMalLTBlKOm 
Apple Computer MacTerminaf 
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01 lithium Pt*m 

PC lo Mac and Sack wiih Cablea 
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Mouse Exchange HirminaJ 

HabaSyatema HabaCom 

Hayea Microcomputer SmAdcom II 

Malnarey Telescape 

Turbo Download 

Meaa Graphic* Tekahke 

P*ljjitJr inTouch 202) 

Source Telecomputing 

The Source (autscripOon A manpafj 

Vldex MaildortEer^Dser; 

Mail Center/6 Users) 

Z A P, Logic Corporation 

Granny S rmih Con neclton _ 


Business Software 


Aagla Development 

Doug Clapp's Word Tools 
Apple Computer MecProjed 
Aaelmltetlon Process 
Mac Spell filghi or The Right Word 
Business Essentials 
The Thesaurus 
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MacHOmo or MacOffice 
MacSpelU 

Cricket Software Cricket Graph 
DatePik Software My Office 
Execulive Otftca 
Liberty Spell-Checker 
Dreamt Of The Phoenix 
Day Keeper Calendar 
Electronic Art* Financial Cookbook 
Eqtroe M;tc Base 

Forethought Factfinder 


Greene, John tan f me. Specimen 
H*&* SrttJfrme HsbaWwd or 
Mac Relax or Calc 8 Graph 
Hoba Wills, Forms, or Business Loflm 
Hayden Software Ensemble 
Hayden: Speller 
r Knew ITs Hera Somewhere 
Human Edge Software 
The CommuniCBbona Edge 
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Note* Far Jan pr Excel 
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Think Tank 512 

Mainstay Mierrtro Informal'on Manager 
Micro Planning Software 
Micro Planner 
Micro Planner Plus. 


Microsoft File. Mulliplan. or Word 
Microsoft Chart 
Mlcroodi Excel 

Nolo Legal Software Will Writer 
Odeafa Helix OMnfon 2.0) 
Bauble Helix 
Paladin Crunch 
SuperCrunch 

Sa tori Software Bulk Mailer 
Saftetyle Decision Map 
Sanwera Publishing 
PFS Rle & Report 
SretSoft D are Fast 


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Aldus PageMaker 
Boston Software Publishers 

TheMKPuht'ihBrll 
MeCnHyPhen 
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Manhattan Graphics 

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Apropos Tax PEonnor 85^6 
Finencial Planning or 
investment Planning 
Harris Technical System■ 

Profit Prgjectiontf Breakover! Analysis 
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Tax Shelter Syndication Analysis 109 00 

On Schedule 119.00 

Peel £ stale invwtroem Anetysis 119 00 

Financial Analysis 59 00 

Commerciai/industfial Applications 59.00 

RHHfential Real Estve 5900 

Csart ays for Microsoft E*cai m 
Property Man B»m*m ImI I 14B 00 

Mcrigaoo Gualrrier 119.00 

Listing Prospect Data Management 119 00 


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Chang Labe 

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Maccounrent U2JQ 

Future Design Sa ftwara 

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GUAR/AP/Cesh Disbursements 
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kmlndor 


99 00 
24500 

£2 00 
239 00 
79 00 


199 00 
29 00 

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10900 
81 00 
40 00 
29500 
49500 
89 00 


Open Systems Open For Business ■ 

Open For Businas* ll 
PatentlrGL, AR, or Inventory Control 

Peachtree 

General Ledger or Accounts Receivable 0700 
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Sierra DrHJn* 

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MocOneWriWCash Disbursements 137 00 

MacOneWrite Bundle (CD, Afl, GL) 299 00 
Simon a Schuster 

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J.K. LasseTs Income Tax 49 00 

SoftSync Poreonet Accountant 54 00 

Timework* 

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Cricket Software Stafworks 79 0Q 

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Systat Systot (W^Jon 30) 399 OQ 


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Ann Arbor Softwortre FyD Paim 
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Fluem Laser Font* 

Che Hanger Software Mac 3D 
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2400 
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5500 
29 00 
49 00 
ItSDQ 
29 00 
59 00 
32.00 
29.00 
57 00 
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Landecapo*. or Buildings 
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Image Club Graphic* 

Digit Ari Laser 
Graphlca Fonta (3 DnkSat) 

Innoveilve Date Dealcn MacDrah 
Paste-Ewe rWuiiw i S it) 

I/O Design* GoldrPrinl Software Only 
CafOtf’rkll Slarigr Kit-3 
CoforRlbbon-Heat Transfer Ribbon* (ea) & QQ 
Kensington Mlcrowara Graphic Accents 29-00 
P rofassion el Type Font* For Text 29.00 

Professional Typo Fonts For Headlines 42.00 
Mignum Software MacPicI 
Volume f dr 2 
The SNde Show Megidan 
Mesa Graphics Pkrt-lt 
MJcroSpot MacPalafie 
Mac Plot 

MecPldl Protes&iDnal 

Mllse Cam puling 
Mac The Knife Voli 

Pelarware 

The Graphic* MogiciBn Painter 
A An i mfllor 

Silicon Beach Software 
Silicon Press 
Springbdarrr 

Aft A La Mac Msf. 1 - People A Place* 

An a u Mac w. 2-Varrety Rack 
T/Maiter 

Click An Loners or Personal Graphics 
Click Aft Publications or Effects 
Vamp, let McCad PCS 
McCatJ Scftamaltcs 


29 00 
40 00 
114.00 


49 00 
139 00 
3500 
2S.O0 
3900 


28 00 
34 00 
59 00 
S200 
11700 
224 00 


Sume III or Volume IV 27 00 


52 00 
42 00 


23 00 
23 00 


29 00 
29 00 
299 00 
399 00 


Educational/Creative 

Software 


| Addison Weney Smart Eyw 


ATUaaTVaJmng 45 00 

Teach Vourself Mulftplan 45 00 

Teach Vburaolf Excol 45 00 

grain Power Chipwtts 26 00 

PBwvrMtih 5200 

Thlnklast 2200 

0*3 .gnScop* 129 00 

Cemda Hutn-CMC 49 00 

Dtvkleon b A»o Speed Reeder ll 37,00 

Spell IU, Main Busier, or Word Attack 27.00 

EbctrofitcAruPinbailCoftsirucdonSei 27 00 
Deluxe Mu*iC Cdndrucfon Set 32 00 

First Byte Smooth Talker (1A»W9 20) £5 00 

Kid Talk or Speller Bee 42 00 

Fdrlftum Software M ecChemisiry S9.M 

ftro Pis* Sof tnciuOas Templates & Ctwntab 
Great Wave Software ConesrtWare Plus 39-00 
ConCerTWflro Music V1, V.2, Of VG 12.00 

ConCdftWflnj MIDI 62,00 

Gomel H alkay 10.00 

Kldffime 31.00 

Hayden MusicWorka 45.00 

Score i mproremeni Sysld m ion he Sat 5 1 go 
Score 1 mprovemeni - Achievement Tests 57,00 
Turbo TLrile 35.00 

Computer hlevet CdriStruction Set 29 00 

Hippopotamus Software 
Computer Almanac or Jokaa 4 Quotes 20 00 

Kefts Group Studio Session 89.00 

Micro: Map* M ecAilaa Volume 1 or 2 49 00 

MknMoft Entrepreneur 29,00 

Learning Mullipl an A Chart 37.00 

Mlndscape Parted Score SAT 47 00 

The Lucher Profile 24 00 

Dick Francl* H loh Slakes 24.00 

Ortho Information Services 
ORTHO Compute r<*»d G ardan I ng 29 00 

Menllf 

MacTypo, MethFioah or WordPiay 20 00 

(JED Typlng Made Easy 36.00 

Queue Intellectual Software 
Not Like The Olftere 
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Whftf Cornea N eri 7 
Rudirvg A Thinking I or II 
Vbcnbufary Adventure I dr H 
Spentiih Grammar I, II or 111 
World Geography Adventure I or ll 
US Geography Advenlure 
How A 0kN Become* A Uw 
American History Adventure 
Starling A New Buarneae 
Analogies I or ll 

College Aptitude Reading Exercise* 

Rubicon Publishing 
Dinner el Eight 
Sllrar Palate Collection 
Scarborough Make Militon* 

Mosteftype 
Run For The Money 
Simon & Schuator Mac Art Depi 
Typing TulOf III 

Paper Airplane Construction Set 
Software Concepts 
Concepts Computerized Allas 
Spectrum HoloftyU 
Tewsw Level t Nonftam Hamispftara) 

Tel later Level 2 /Atortftem A Southom) 

Think Etfucaiionai 
MacEdge II or Mind Over Mec 


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44 00 
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44.00 
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49 00 

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1500 
24 00 
35.00 
24 00 

45.00 

27,00 
42 00 


Ann Arbor 


I longer or Pyrj 
or Softworka 


Evelyn Wood Dynamtc Reader 


Game Software 


Activision 

Borrowed Time, Hac kor. or Mindshodw 27.00 
Championship Star L oague Baseball 21,00 

Championship Golf 30.00 

Alta r Ego (Mah Or fomota Vorston) 35 00 


23,00 

22.00 

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2700 
24 00 
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29 00 
26 00 
26 00 
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23 00 

24 00 

27.00 
27 00 
27 00 


Grid Wars 


Sherlock Holms: 'AnnihDr Bow' 

Blue Chip Software 

Barron, Mililortalra, Squire, or Tycoon 

Brodarbund Aftcleni Aft of War 

Cyborg or Lode Runner 

EPYH Winter Games ek Rogue 

Temple ol Apnhsi Trilogy 

Electronic Arte 

CnossMatter 2000 

Dr 4 A Larry Bind go One-On-One 

SkyFrw or Archon 

Software Golden OW-es 

Fortnum Software 

Madnoqoa Choo-Choo 

Hayden Software 

Holy Graji, Eargon III, or Inca 


Kprecm or Perpiexx 
Chiiieng< " 


Word Challenge ll 
inlocom A Mind Forever Wryeg-ng 
Cutihroalt or Enchantor, of BeTlyhoo 
Deadline or Staroross 
Hitchhikers Guide or Zork I 
InfOol, Zork || or 2<xk III 
FlarwtfBll Of SeaslAlker 

Sorcerer or Suspect 
Suspended or Specbreaker 
Wiihbnnger or Witness 
1 nvisicluas - Hint Booklets i ea | 
Msgnum Software Gypsy 
Mark of I ho Unicom HEX 
Miles Computing 
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Rambo: First Blood Pmrt il 
Stephen King's: The Mot 
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Qmnitrenrfa Universe II 
Origin System* uptime III 
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Foster Th plane 


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Practical Computer Applications 

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Gateway 
Siam On-Line 

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Silicon Beach Software 
Airbomel or Enchanted Scepters 
Sir Tbch Wizardry 

Spectrum H o I chyle GATO or Otxter 
Strategic Simulation* 

Computer Sasebiii 
G emsttmo Warner 
Synipt* Softwar* 

Mlndwheel. Ease*. Or Brimstone 
Tala rfu m Amazon or Dragon world 
F&rannert 451 or Rendezvous wTRama 
Vida* Fun Pack 
MacCbeckera A Rovers* 

MacGammon $ C nbPag* 

MaCVaga* 


Disk Drives/Hard Disks 


Apple Computer 

Macintosh Hard Disk 20 1169 00 

Mecto toah External BOOK 3 Drive 379.00 

AaeJmllaiton Proceea 

Excatlbur 2 Meg External Rom Dr lv* 599.00 
AST Rea* arch AST4O0O 4HW.00 

74 MB External Ward D/sk with W-MB Can ddgo- 
Tapo Backup for the Macintosh Pips 

Hebe System* 

H aba Disk (100 KQ D&DD External Gave 240.00 

Iomega 

Bernoulli Box 5MB for Mac 5i2K f 290.00 

Semou Hi Box 2- I0M B tot Mac 512K 2409 DO 
Bernoulli Box 5MB lor MacPIua SCSI 1269.00 
Bernoulli Box 1OM0 tor Mac Plus SCSI 1769.00 
Bernoulli Box 20MB ter MeePlul SCSI 2349.00 
Bernoulli Box 2-tdMB 

tor MecPIuj SCSI 2479.00 

Bernoulli Box 2 20MB 

for MacPlus SCSI 3149.00 

LoOOWH 

Hard Disk & Tape SecAups tot ft* MecPtos 
LoOowtvT20 20 Mega byte Tape Drive 779 GO 
LoOown-T60 60 Megabyte Tape Drwe 1579 00 
LoGown-20 20 Megabyte Herd Duk 879.00 
LnOown-40 40 Megabyte Herd Duk 1649.00 
LoOown-BC 00 Megabyte Hard Disk 3299 00 
Maple 'technology 

MT3002aO0K External Drive 199 00 

MDIdeea. Inc. 

H D-20 (2QMB Ward Disk for MacP/usj 619 DO 
H D-30 f30MS Wa/d Disk For Mac Pius) 1169-00 
MICAH 

Advanced Focbnotogy Internal Hard Disk 
Systems for the Mac fntoah 4 Maetntoah Plus 
Micoh Drive AT 20 I nlom&l Hard Dfive 1449.00 
MicahMemory 2/4 Card, 2MB Ram 440.00 

MicehMompry 2/4 Card, 4 MB Ram 649.00 


Au1t>E/ecr/>Mnvffft f Ibar Wfe/ranrae 
MAC535-20 800KB External Drive 249 QO 

Mirror Technologies 

m agnu m 600 K External Drive 269 00 

MagWai 20 Internal 

20MB Hard Drive 999 00 

MagNtt 20X External 

20MB Hard Drive 969 00 

Magn um Tape 10MB 

or £OM0 Tape Backup 0*11 

Mltauba 

Sup#r 5 Mac 400K External Drive 199 00 

Super 5 Mac ROOK External Drive 269 00 

Pared I *e System* 

MAC 10 WDisk Cache 6 Print SpOCtor 549.00 

MAC 20 w/Oisk Cash* A Pri nl Spootef 799.00 

Personal Computer Pari pti trail 

Mac Bottom Herd Disk 20MB 1149 00 

Quark 

QC10-10 M0 External Hard Dak 799 00 

QC2Q" 20M 3 External H ard Disk 1119 00 

SuperMec 

Taka FuittovwiBvaotttia MaePtus SCSi Pan! 
O&l&Fmme 20MB Hard Dak 
for Mac Plus Call 

Western Automation Lab* 

Oasch Extpmai RAMduk 500KB 299 00 

Dasctv External RAMdiik tOOOXB 339 CO 
O each External RAMdak 200QKB 339 00 


Modems 


Anchor Autorna il on 
Signalman Express 1200 Baud 
Signalman Lightning 2400 Baud 
Apple Computer 
Apple Personal Modem 300/1200 
Hayes Microcomputing 
Smart modem 300 
SmartmPderri 1200 

Smart modern 1200 Mac w/SmnrtCOm l( 

Smart modem 2400 

Trenset 10001Z&K 

Transit 1000-512K 

Transm tOOO Mac Accessory Kit 

KenelnglOn 

Portable Modem (300 Baud} 

Mac Modem 1200 /Hayes Compatible) 
Novation 

Cat Comm Communlcalions System 
Prentice 

Popcorn XT 00 Modem wtfStraightaJk 


22900 
349 00 

279.00 

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359 00 
429.00 
575.00 
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86.00 

399.00 

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259 00 


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US. Robotic* Password 1200 1 99.00 

Courier 2400 389 00 


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Appte Computer 
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ImageWriter II Cut Sheet Feeder 
imageWrnar Wide Carriage 


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HR 25 (23c pa} Daisywnoel 
HR-35 (35cpa) Oaisywhaol 
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FX 2 S 0 w/Seriai Inta/tao* 

L 08001 DOG w/Seriol toieriece 
Hewlett Packard 
Thintoei, UserJet. User Jet Plus 
Juki 6100 tiBepsj Daisywheel Serial 
6200130cpa) Daisywheel Serial 
0300 {40cpa} Daisywheel Serial 
NEC SpLnWmar a f.l. 3S0 Par /Ser 
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SpInWritor 3510 
SpinWriterSaiO 
Color PlnWrtlef CP2-6 10" 

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The best (and worst) games you can buy right now. 


LOOKIN' FOR A GOOD TIME? 
Someone out there must be, judging 
by the number of calls we get at the 
MacUser offices asking us for our 
picks of the “hot” games in town. 
We’ve compiled this list of the best 
and the brightest In entertainment 
software for the Mac. It’s by no 
means complete (great stuff comes 
into the office almost every day), but 
ir’U get you started in the right 
direction — and just maybe, it will 
save you a few calls in the process. 

MYSTERY 

Deja Vu: A Nightmare Comes 
True {Mindscape; $49.95) revolu¬ 
tionized the notion of a sentence 
parser, making this hardboiled mur¬ 
der mystery among die easiest ad- 
ventures to learn — even for rank 
novices. Spectacular high*resolution 
graphics all behave as icons, letting 
players simply click on objects in 
order to examine them, move them, 
open them, or anything else. Buttons 
along the top of the screen are 
clicked for all commands. 

Besides its ease of play, Deja Vu 
offers a meaty storyline in which 
players must solve a murder and a 
kidnapping — after they find the 
drug that will restore their lost mem* 
orv, that is. 

Bo rro wed Time (Acti v i s ion; 


$44.95) has a user interface that isn't 
quite as friendly, but the game itself 
is chock-full of suspense and sur¬ 
prises. If you, as Detective Sam 
Marlowe, don’t think and act like a 
real tough-guy gumshoe, you’ll nev¬ 
er solve the murder (yours) before it 
happens. Chew on a couple of nails 
(in a pinch, try broken glass) before 
sitting down with this one, 

ADVENTURE 

Wizardry (Sir-Tecfb$59,95) was 
among the first role-playing adven¬ 
ture games, and it’s still among the 
best. The first scenario, Proving 
Grounds of the Mad Overlord, lets a 
six-character party join together to 
explore the ten subterranean levels 
tit at lead to Wcrdna, the evil wizard. 
Tricks, traps and a good sense of 
humor spice up this dungeonquest. 

Ultima III (Origin Systems; 
$59,95) is an all-cneompassing role- 
playing treat that challenges a party 
of up to four characters to find and 
destroy the murderous Exodus, off¬ 
spring of the two foes in previous 
Ultima adventures. Good graphics 
and sound and a touch of humor add 
to this strategy-oriented journey. 

You can solve Rogue (Epyx; $39) 
three dozen times and still never play 
the same game twice. That’s because 
die attributes of each treasure, such 


as a pink potion or a wooden staff, 
change every time you play — as 
docs die map of each dungeon level. 
Tile object of this hack-and-slash 
swordquest is to find an amulet 
hidden somewhere below the fif¬ 
teenth level, and return to the sur¬ 
face with it — if you survive. 

SIMULATION 

Gato (Spectrum Holobyrc; 
$39,95) is an absorbing simulation 
of World War II submarine combat. 
You have to stay on your toes and 
watch all your instruments, besides, 
of course, keeping an eye on various 
enemy ships, to stay afloat. Twenty 
different missions are included on 
the disk, and when you’re finished 
with those, vou can make your own. 

Those who’d rather take to die 
skies than the water will enjoy Fok- 
kcr Triplane (FBI; $59.95), an ex¬ 
citing World War I flight simulator. 
Three types of acrion {"Touch ’n 
Go,” “Dogfight” and “Seek ’n De¬ 
stroy’ 1 ) plus ten practice missions let 
armchair aces test their mettle. Wind 
factors, cloud ceilings and the dis¬ 
tance and heading needed to reach a 
destination are options that let play¬ 
ers stretch their skills as they build 
confidence. 

MacGoIf (Practical Computer 
Applications; S59.95) can actually 


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JULY 1986 MACUS ER81 


















GAMES TO SHOOT OR BOOT 


help goiters improve rhrir games by 
letting them test different dubs and 
stances under all kinds of circum¬ 
stances. But more important* it’s a 
lot of fun, even if you don’t even 
play miniature golf. Excellent graph¬ 
ics and digitized sound effects add 
realism to the two courses (more 
available on separate disks), and up 
to four players can compete at a 
time. 

FINANCIAL 

Enjoy the vicarious thrill of mak¬ 
ing — and possibly losing — a 
fortune? Make Millions (Scarbor¬ 
ough; $49.95) gives pLivers a eats 
eye view of what it's like to be in the 
drivers’ seat of a major corporation. 
The object of this exercise is to 
acquire a controlling interest in each 
of IVikki YVikki Island's five interre¬ 
lated industries. Fantastic graphics 
combine with realistic personality 
simulations (the first true example of 
AS — Artificial Stupidity) to really 
make players fed like the boss — 
with all the attendant ulcers and 
headaches vou could expect from a 
real business. The ultimate goal is to 
acquire all five keys to vour office 
sate. 

Blue Chip’s entire line of financial 
games [ Baron, Millionaire, Tycoon 
and Squire; $50 to $60 each) simu¬ 
late the ups and downs of stock, real 
estate or commodity markers, with¬ 
out simulating being foreclosed on 
your home. By following the Finan¬ 
cial Journal, keeping a dose watch 
on scatter-charts of current prices 
and investing wisely, players can 
amass a small fortune — and learn a 
little something about high finance 
at the same time. 

ACTION 

Winter Games (Epyx; $39) lets 
armchair athletes compete against 
each other in events ranging from 
figure skating to bobsledding all the 
way to the dreaded biathlon. Excel¬ 
lent graphics, animation and sound 
effects add to the of thrill of victory 
and agony of defeat, and the multi¬ 
ple player option lets your friends 
get in on the fun. 

One on One (Electronic Arts; 
$39.95) lets players step into the 
sneakers of basketball greats Larry 


Bird and Dr. J in a half-court compe¬ 
tition against another human or the 
Mac. The person who scored the last 
point gains control of the mouse, 
while the loser plays using the key¬ 
board until he makes another shot. 
Bird and Dr. J each have different 
strengths and weaknesses (rhe Doc¬ 
tor is faster, but Bird is much stron¬ 
ger) that make strategies very differ¬ 
ent for each player. 

Pinball Construction Set (Elec¬ 
tronic Arts; $39.95) lets players de¬ 
sign an unlimited number of pinball 
boards, complete with bumpers, 
drop targets and ball-eating holes. 
Fantastic digitized sounds are avail¬ 
able to users of 512K or larger 
Macs, and images can be enhanced 
or ported over from MacPaint. Al¬ 
though the manual is very sketchv, 
eventually players will be able to 
figure out enough to simulate their 
favorite tables on the Mac screen. 

INTERACTIVE FICTION 

The Mist (Mindscape; $39.95) is 
based on a short story by Stephen 
King, and his writing style is perfect¬ 
ly suited to this grisly tale. In (where 
else:)a small New England town, 
mysterious mist has suddenly ap¬ 
peared. Can you fight vour way 
through a sickening array of hellish 
monsters, rescue your son and save 
both vour lives? Despite a very 
quirky sentence parser, this game 
will keep players coining back for 
more — if only to find out how it all 
turns out. 

Brimstonc ( S yilapse/B rt )de rb und; 
$39.95) was a real Iv pleasant sur¬ 
prise. While the term “interactive 
novel” has been used as a catch 


phrase to describe most text adven¬ 
ture games. Brimstone is one of the 
first true examples of it. The game's 
third-person narrative is a bit discon¬ 
certing to veteran adventure game 
players, but initial discomfort quick¬ 
ly fades and players find themselves 
engrossed in the adventures of Sir 
Gawain, a Knight of the Round 
Table, as he journeys down to Hell 
and hack — literally. There are few 
real puzzles to solve here, but it's a 
very interesting journey nonetheless. 

A rip of the hat is in order to 
Infocom, the company that virtually 
pioneered the text adventure genre 
with Zork [$39,95 to $44.95 each). 
The Zork trilogy is still as playable 
as it was the day it was released, with 
an open-ended storyline that lets 
players solve various riddles in their 
own wav and time. 

On a more lighthearted note. In* 
fbcom’s game translation of Douglas 
Adams' bestselling Hitchhikers" 
Guide to the Galaxy ($39.95) is 
among the funniest text adventures 
around, although several highly il¬ 
logical puzzles will prove too frus¬ 
trating for most of us. 

PARTY GAMES 

Mind Prober (Human Edge; 
$50) offers a series of true/false ques¬ 
tions about a person's personality, 
then prims a four-page report based 
on the answers it receives. In the 
same vein. The Luseher Profile 
(Mindscapc; $44.95) offers a de¬ 
tailed color-preference test that's im¬ 
possible to lie about, then prints a 
report. Roth of these pop-psycholo¬ 
gy programs are a lor of fim in 
crowds — or on first dates, 


The Mht f an all-text ad¬ 
venture, b written in the 
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Two different views of tke 
playing field — and 
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to baffle Henry Kissinger 
— are available in Psfo/t 
Chess. 



STRATEGY 

The Ancient Art of War {Bro- 
derbund; $49.95) recreates a num¬ 
ber of famous historical battles, and 
gives the armchair general the option 
to pick his or her computer-con¬ 
trolled opponent. Armies consist of 
knights (armed fighters), barbarians 
{your basic big lug), archers and 
scouts, and scenarios range from the 
mythical ( Race of the Gods) ro the 
pseudo-historical {Custer’s Last 
Stand). Each battle is based on cap¬ 
turing a given number of enemy 
flags. When you get tired of the 
scenarios provided, you can make 
your own. 

Balance of Power (Mindscape; 
$54.95) is the first computerized 
peacegamc, requiring players ro walk 
the delicate balance between over- 
aggression and wimpincss in the nu¬ 
clear age. Can you, as President of 
the United States or Premier of the 
U.S.S.R., maintain the peace with¬ 
out losing too much global prestige? 

WORDS 

Like crossword puzzles? Word- 
Play {Palantir; 549,95) might just 
be the ultimate play on words, offer¬ 
ing crossword addicts more than 50 
disk-based games ranging in difficul¬ 
ty from Easy all the way to Diagram¬ 
less. Puzzles are laid out on a 23 by 
23 square grid, with an option to 
create your own crosswords when 
you’ve played through all the games. 
The Proof option even lets you see 
how youVe doing on a puzzle-in- 
progress. 

Perplex* {Hayden; $39.95) has 
its roots in the board game Scrabble, 
allowing up to four players to test 

Balance of Power chal¬ 
lenges players to keep the 
peace, even when their 
honor's at stake. 


their verbal skills against each other 
or the computer. The rules can he 
changed, and the game’s 90,000 
word dictionary will prove up to 
most verbal challenges. 

CHESS 

Psion Chess (Psion; $59.95) of¬ 
fers great graphics and an unusual 
three-dimensional mode that lets 
chess players sec the board as if they 
were actually sitting in front of it. It 
also features a tournament-style time 
clock, and a choice of play languages 
including French, Spanish, German, 
Italian and Swedish. 

On the other hand, Sargon III 
(Hayden; S49.95) contains a much 
larger selection of complete games 
on the disk, plus adds openings and 
endgames just so you can practice up 
for those big games. It lacks a game 
clock, but makes up for that with a 
terrific 100-page manual that pro¬ 
vides a tutorial on the basics of chess, 
plus includes a listing of classic 


games contained on the disk and a 
good-sized bibliography. 

BOMBS AWAY! 

Not all games are good. What 
follows is a list of absolute clunkers, 
games that you wouldn’t want to 
play, even if they paid you. 

Real Life (Relational Systems 
Corporation; around $40) might be 
about real life if you’re a member of 
a hell-and-brimstone born-again so¬ 
ciety that thinks that everyone who 
doesn't belong to their sect is a wino, 
hooker, gambler or child-molesting 
homosexual. Jerry FaJweil might nor 
be offended by the content of this 
text adventure — but everyone else 
will be. 

Monkey Business {The Other 
Valley Software; around $30) is an 
unbelievably bad rip-off of the old 
arcade hit, Donkey Kong. But its 
thick, low-res graphics and choppy 
sound effects make this game look 
like it could have been programmed 
in the 1970’s for the old Atari 2600 
cartridge machine. 

Scott Adams Adventures (cur¬ 
rently available in a set of twelve 
from Star Systems Software; 
$59.95) first appeared at about the 
same time as the original Wizardry. 
Unlike the latter, these are outdated, 
clunky and offer about as much 
chance for creativity as a standard 
rat’s maze. If you don’t think along 
the same quirky lines as Scott Ad¬ 
ams, you’ll never get very far in these 
games. 

Trade Forman Hines is the Senior Editor of 
Madjser . 



84M ACUSE R JULY 1986 

















For all of you who thought Dennis Brothers 
was crazy to give away MacTEP, here’s MicroPhone. 

The one he’s selling. 


When the Macintosh first 
came out, the most powerful per¬ 
sonal computer ever built didn’t 
have the brains to make a 
phone call. 

So Dennis Brothers tore 
down his Mac, figured out 
how it worked, and wrote 
Mac’s first communica¬ 
tions program, MacTEP. 

Which he proceeded 
to give away. 

MacTEP was a classic. 

The first standard in Mac com¬ 
munications. 

Now he’s created the 
second: MicroPhone. A program 
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MicroPhone is so sophisti¬ 
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when you go on-line. A delight to the experienced. And a 
saviour for the novice. 

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to access all major information services: CompuServe* 
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programs. 

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Building vour own Empire guards. The Lode Runner 

a 1 (that's you) has only quick moves, 

. fast thinking and a gun that burrows 

entertainment keeps holes, which can either be used for a 

hasty escape or to set traps for pursu¬ 
ing guards. 

The game’s dozens of built-in 
screens will keep you going for 
months, until you figure out each 
screen’s individual strategy. But un¬ 
like many action games, you’ll never 
get tired of this one* Bored with the 
Bunge lings? Sick of old screens? In¬ 
dulge! Activate the Editor menu to 
design and create your own screens* 
The components are provided, so all 
you have to do is bring the (mental) 
glue. 

As a Lode Runner Architect First 
Class, there is a lot of power at your 
disposal* You can place screen pieces 
anywhere* cut, copy, paste, clear, 
UNDO or SAVE changes. Revert to 
the original if the latest blueprint 
hasn’t fared as well as expected* 
About the only thing you can’t do is 
edit the original screens — although 
of course, you can recreate them 
while in the Edit mode. 



game programs fresh . 


WHEN A GAME GETS Tl RESOME OR 
boring, what do you do? Put it back 
on the shelf and spend more money 
to get something new that may or 
may not be better? There are some 
games you’ll just never get bored 
with, nu matter how often you play. 
That’s because they come with built- 
in editors that allow us to literally 
create our own fun. 

AN EXERCISE IN STRATEGIC ACTION 

Perhaps one of the most challeng¬ 
ing Mac games, Broderbund’s Lode 
Runner comes with 100 different 
screens, all with fast action com¬ 
bined with different strategic twists. 
Using the keyboard or the mouse, 
players climb ladders and move 
around platforms while gathering 
gold and evading pesky Rungcling 
































The building blocks (literally) 
consist of drillable bricks, ladders, 
drill resistant bars, nasty trap doors 
(which look like ordinary bricks dur¬ 
ing play) and gold chests. Highwires 
make chasm crossing a snap, Invisi¬ 
ble ladders allow access to the next 
level once all chests have been recov¬ 
ered, Players include you, the vener¬ 
able Lode Runner , and up to five 
guards. And, in case vou make a 
mistake during creation, a blank 
square may be used to erase incor¬ 
rectly placed pieces. 

Though the game generator is 
easy to use, there are a few tricks to 
doing it better. First, become famil¬ 
iar with the game itself. Study and 
master the screens the game provides 
before designing your own, 

Next, make duplicates of finished 
boards before experimenting with 
them. (Use the COPY function to 
accomplish this.) The originals 
should be saved to another disk for 
even greater safety. 

Avoid saving a blank screen in a 
series, since the program interprets 
blank screens as the final screen in a 
given game. Also, you don't need to 
use blank squares to remove pieces. 
Placing the piece-shaped cursor over 
its on-screen double and clicking is 
just as good 

Whatever your involvement level. 
Lade Runner is accommodating. 
Up to 750 boards can be created 
across five different games. Even the 
most rabid action tan can’t get bored 
with a selection like that! 

BUILD YOUR OWN BOXER 

So you “coulda been a contend¬ 
er?' 1 Here’s your second chance. Sier¬ 
ra’s Championship Boxing (see Mac- 
User, March 1986) packs plenty of 
pugilistic possibilities, allowing 
would-be Don Kings to actually cre¬ 
ate and groom their own contenders. 

Updated to reflect recent changes 
in the boxing world, Championship 
Boxing includes a roster of every 
modern champ, the highest ranked 
contenders, and humorous cartoon 
and animal characters. In the strate¬ 
gy mode, you manage the boxer by 
“shouting” advice; in the arcade 
mode, you directly control every 
bob, weave and hammer with the 
key bo a rd. Cha mpiomhip Baxinrfs 


graphics, ringside humor and action 
are outstanding. 

One of the program's best features 
is the option to modify original 
characters or create new boxers from 
scratch. Instead of icons, buttons are 
used to highlight choices. The proce¬ 
dure is a simple one, requiring less, 
than five minutes* 

By researching the stars on a real 
boxer, vou can create a working 
simulation. If that sounds like too 
much effort, then just activate a few 
variables and put your bruiser in rhe 
ring. 

The list of itends to be filled in is 
pretty comprehensive, with each sta-1 
tistic humorously illustrated during 
the creation screens* General stats 
include age, weight, height, reach 
and record in the ring. Number of 
KOs and the number of rimes KO’d 
are listed. The right selection even 
makes it possible lor the program to 
update the record after every match. 
(Two of my boxers were doing so 
poorly l got tired of the stars and 
eventually deactivated this function.) 

As in real life, reputation means a 
lot, Arm your pugilistic progeny 
with a “best punch," designate when 
he tires or fights his best (early, 
middle rounds, etc.} and identify 
how hard he hits. Likewise, imbue 
him with defensive characteristics, 
punching accuracy and a level of 
aggression. 

Susceptibility to cuts and injuries, 
speed and type of character round 
out the choices* With such a mix and 
match approach you can recreate just 
about anyone's boxing habits and 
abilities. 

Since this is one of the easiest 
construction sets, I have only one 
rip. Don’t ever take a dive! 

BUILDING ARCADE THRILLS 

Pinball Construction Set , by Elec¬ 
tronic Arts (see January 

1986), may have originally been de¬ 
veloped for other computers, but the 
Mac version is a great, and quite 
Mac I ike, game unto itself 

Five ready-to-play games are in¬ 
cluded on the game disk, along with 
editing tools and a box full of good¬ 
ies. While it runs on all Macs, only 
Macs with 512K or more of RAM 
can take advantage of its exceptional 


digitized arcade sound capabilities. 

Despite the intuitive way players 
select and drag parts from the bin to 
create new pinball machines, the 
program does have its hazy areas — 
fnost of which can be traced to 
Pinball Cmistmctum Set's (very) 
sparse documentation. A complete 
guide to using each segment of the 
construction phase is conspicuously 
missing from the manual, Here's 
jpme uf what isn't in the documenta¬ 
tion: 

Up to 128 parts may be built into 
each game. Multiple balls (via the 
ball grabber;, bumpers, two sizes of 
flippers, and the pinball version of a 
Venus Fly Trap can be set anywhere, 
moved ^or duplicated. Supplement 
these witli kickers, drop targets, 
spinners, slingshots, rollover or knife 
edge targets. The possibilities arc 
almost endless. 

Non reactive barriers and lanes can 
be placed, manipulated and painted. 
These* pieces, called polygons bv Pin- 
bail Constmction Set, may be ham¬ 
mered into shape or cut loose with a 
scissor that actually works like a nail 
puller. A brush icon provide effort¬ 
less custom paint jobs and pattern 
fills, and especially complicated 
gra p h i cs jo bs ca n be i n i ported d i rcc t- 
Iv from MacPaint. 

The table environment is totally 
define able through the gravin', ball 
speed, ball elasticity and bumper kick 
slide controls. Set scores at your 
leisure. Toggle the bonus multiplier 
on or off; wire multiple targets to¬ 
gether and set rhe corresponding 
bonuses* This last feature is done 
with a soldering iron cursor. A wire 
cutter is provided just in case 
changes are m order. 

Musical tones are defined at the 
same time as score values are. Select 
from nine possibilities, including 
complete silence* You’ll probably 
want to experiment with the audio's 
tones and volume settings, as the 
sou m.I effects are staggering. 

Despite its impressive features, 
there are still a few shortcomings. 
Parts cannot be rotated to create a 
better fit, and certain traditional tar¬ 
gets and table sounds are not avail¬ 
able. 

When you create your custom 
pinball sets, hear the following tips 


JULY 1986 MACUSER87 



UNDER CONSTRUCTION 


in mind. Shape the table first. Place 
the polygons next, developing travel 
and drain lanes. Then throw in a 
couple of flippers, followed by non¬ 
reactive guideposts and targets. Be 
sure to play-test your creation often, 
tweaking problems with a cautious 
eye to make sure you don’t replace 
one problem with another. 

Once the play action is just right, 
save the design and open it with 
MacPaint. Add artwork and text to 
the backboard (which is displayed to 
the right, above the player scores) as 
well as the tabletop. With a little 
practice, who knows? A couple of 
great designs might just open the 
doors to a new career at Bally- 
Midway. 

BATTLE BY DESIGN 

Broderbund’s The Ancient An of 
War (sec MacUser , April 1986) al¬ 
lows armchair generals the pleasure 
of recreating ancient battles, fighting 
fictitious wars, or even altering past 
battles. After becoming familiar with 
the built-in scenarios, would-be war¬ 
riors can run through a six-step 
procedure to build a custom battle. 

As with the regular scenarios, The 
Ancient An of Wai J s generated 
games are filled with flourishes. Two 
full screens of terrain may be laid out 
with all sorts of mountain, forest, 
plains, footpath or water icons. 
Bridges, forts and villages populate 
these environs, along with squads of 
hostile — and friendly — troops. 
Possible combatants include long¬ 
bow archers, barc-fisted, scantilv- 
clad barbarians, armored knights (on 
foot!) and spies. 

The object of each game is to 
capture all the enemy’s flags. After 
an aerial preview of the battle¬ 
ground, the player takes appropriate 
action, gathering information, 
readying troops, attacking or de¬ 
fending. When enemy squads meet 
they usually wind up in combat (the 
exception is when one squad is so 
outnumbered that it’s captured out¬ 
right). Selecting ZOOM brings up a 
close-up tactical screen, where die 
outcome of a battle can be controlled 
by issuing commands (advance, at¬ 
tack, hold your ground or retreat) to 
each type of warrior. Just click on 
the desired button during the battle. 


Once a conflict has ended, the 
overview returns, and die armies 
continue to march in the directions 
thev were instructed to. You’ll need 
to think fast, especially at the higher 
game speeds, or when playing 
against Sun Tsu, the most intelligent 
computer opponent. 

Don’t let the scope of this pro¬ 
gram intimidate you. The average 
(non-war) gamer can play and fully 
understand his or her first game in 
under 45 minutes. Designing a bat¬ 
tle, which can be done knowledge¬ 
ably after just one or two games, 
requires a mere 15 to 20 minutes. 
The detailed game manual has an 
entire section devoted to campaign 
creation techniques. 

Once a blank disk is readied as a 
Campaign disk, proceed to make the 
map, laying out the terrain and forti¬ 
fications. Approximately one fifth of 
the entire battlefield is visible during 
this phase. A minimap in the lower 
left corner of the screen shows the 
relationship between the detail area 
being constructed and the entire bat¬ 
tlefield. 

Place your chunks of terrain, 
which are actually icons, where de¬ 
sired. Once in place they cannot be 
moved, although they can be cov¬ 
ered with another terrain type. 
Clicking buttons switches between 
assorted, water, mountain or forest 
parts boxes. The terrain library also 
supplies ready-made villages, forts 
and bridges, as well as some basic 
pieces of the other types. 

The next step is to position the 
opposing forces’ starting positions 
and designate headquarters. As in 
capture the flag, one side loses if the 
enemy captures its flags or all its 
forces. 

Squads can have a maximum of 14 
soldiers, who can be any combina¬ 
tion of the four soldier types. It is 
useful to provide a balanced mix for 
parties on the move. Archers should 
be in the overwhelming majority 
when garrisoning fortifications if 
you hope to hold the forts. Adjust 
the food supply levels and condition 
of the troops with slide bar controls; 
don’t forget to specify a marching 
cadence (stopped, slow march, 
march or fast march). Up to 20 
squads total may be placed on the 


battlefield. You can tty to make the 
forces relatively even for a beginner’s 
game. Stack the cxids in the comput¬ 
er’s favor (it always plays the black 
side) if you want a real mental work¬ 
out. 

'Troop formations are important 
when encountering hostile forces. In 
the beginning select a protective 
stance, which can be adjusted just 
before combat if you feel the need. 
Open formations are best for an 
archer-heavy squad, since it reduces 
the chances of literally stabbing your 
own troops in the back. 

As in real battles, terrain type 
plays a major role. Movement is 
easiest on the plains and more diffi¬ 
cult in the hills, mountains and wa¬ 
terways. (Set the game to the hardest 
options and few squads will survive a 
dunk in the drink.) 

Finally, select the opposing leader. 
Choices include the goddess Athena, 
Caesar, Genghis Khan, Alexander 
the Great, Sun Tzu and Crazy Ivan 
(the comic relief). 

The last thing to do is establish 
the default rules, which are the set¬ 
tings the program defaults to if play¬ 
ers don’t change any options. Are 
the waters to be deep and dangerous 
or shallow and safe, the mountains 
low and safe or high and dangerous? 
Will forts train troops slowly or 
quickly? Will villages and forts sup¬ 
ply food? The choices are yours. 

Now all you have to do is write 
the campaign’s storyline and title. A 
screen-sized scroll records your tale 
of destiny as well as its title. When 
done you can access the campaign as 
easily as any others. Just don’t save 
the new campaign to your original 
game disk, as it will replace another 
one already there and lose the old 
campaign forever. 

This is such a well-conceived con¬ 
struction set that very little is left to 
chance. Become very familiar with 
the game and its strategics and soon 
you’ll be creating great scenarios. 

A PLAY ON WORDS 

To many people, the pen is might¬ 
ier than the sword, and anyone who 
can complete the Nnv York Times 
Sunday crossword is a mighty 
wordsmith indeed. Crossword puz¬ 
zlers could easily find themselves 


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UNDER CONSTRUCTION 


PINBALL CONSTRUCTION SET TOOLBOX 



PARTS SCREEN - 
youVo looking ai It 


FUPPER - 
players hit (he 
boll wilh it 


SHAPE EDfTWG SCREEN 
tonkins commands 
for polygon 
manipulation and 
filling, using 
a pattern palette 


SUFFER 

balls bounce off M, 
force sol In —- 
World Sellings 


SLINGSHOT 
balls bounce awly~~~ 
bom iia Inside surface; 
typically placed near the 
drain, and in Iron! and 
lo sides of bumpers 


-— MAGNET 

changes normal 
gravitational ball 
movement by puling 
ball towards itself 


PIC3QPI 


BALL HOPPER -^ 
holds balls as 
they tall In, releases 
all balls when 
three balls are hold 


-- SPNNER 
balls passing 
through a spinner 
register points as 
flap revolves 


- LANE 

inactive element 
used lo create 
bail pathways 
and lonncis 


DROP TARGET 
segments register 
separately as balls 
hit them, resets— 
Msell when all 
(argots are hit 


GATE 

placed at the entrance 
v of a pathway, it 
lets a ball oul bul 
prevents ii from 
coming back in 


PCtYGON 
used lor creating 
solid walls, has a 
variety of shapes 
and lilts 


■' HCLLCVER 
registers points 
each lime 
bails pass over it 


addicted to Palantir Software’s 
WordPlay; it comes equipped with 
multiple levels of crossword puzzles 
and (you guessed it!) the ability to 
create your own, 

A slim manual explains the puz¬ 
zles’ five levels of difficulty. (A sixth 
option is a diagramless puzzle with¬ 
out the darkened squares, which arc 
so useful in indicating how long an 
answer should be. This is somewhat 
similar ru playing chess while blind¬ 
folded,) 

WordPlay uses the mouse and key¬ 
board, though not on a mutually 
exclusive basis. The cursor control 
scheme takes a little getting used to, 
hur after a few sessions, it should be 
second nature. 

Players enter responses or guesses 
(displayed differently on-screen) 
with the keyboard. Answers for the 
entire screen or selected areas can be 
shown. Likewise, incorrect entries 
are identified by question marks. 

Various fonts may be selected. 
Printout options are numerous, in¬ 
cluding options to output blank, in 
progress (completed sections print¬ 
ed) or solved puzzles. Clues may be 


printed on the page with the puzzles 
or on separate pages. 

The manual devotes little space 
(one side of one page) to explain the 
construction set capability. Though 
the instructions arc adequate and do 
tersely explain the procedure, a little 
clarification would make things easi¬ 
er, especially on novice puzzle mak¬ 
ers. Fortunately, though, the pro¬ 
gram is intuitive enough that 
creation 'techniques become appar¬ 
ent after the first puzzle is done. 

Puzzles from 4 to 23 squares per 
side can be handled. Those bigger 
than 15 by 15 must be scrolled. If 
you don’t view full lists of clues, but 
remain content with those for the 
highlighted square, you can expand 
the window to avoid scrolling. (This 
little secret was not well explained in 
the manual.) 

To create a custom puzzle, select 
the NEW option and choose WORK 
instead of PLAY, Make it cither stan¬ 
dard or diagramlcss. (Unless you are 
heavily into freeform crossword puz¬ 
zles, work with standard puzzles.) 

After setting dimensions, Word- 
Play suggests laying out the black. 


non-text squares. Some will find it 
easier to enter the solutions first, 
then drop in the delimiters. 

Filling in the solution is a critical 
step. You must enter all the answers 
first, then the clues. If you veer from 
this path, any alterations in the puz¬ 
zle layout will cause the clues to be 
out of sync. 

To enter a clue, first click on the 
desired square. Then move the cur¬ 
sor and click on the due box. If you 
don’t perform the latter step, the 
clue overwrites the solution. I 
learned that the hard way. 

Even though the manual says to 
fill in the Across, then the Down 
clues, it is all right to take a different 
approach. I filled in all the Across, 
then went back and did the Down 
clues. There is plenty of room, even 
ibr the longest dues. 

Two problems might pop up dur¬ 
ing puzzle construction. Accidentally 
hitting the Option key instead of 
Shift can prevent dues from being 
entered. If you hear a beep when 
filling in a due, it has not been 
accepted. Clear the keyboard by 
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BEYOND BARE BASK 

Build up your BASIC muscles by using CLR machine-language libraries „ 


MORE MICRO PROG RAM MERS 
know BASIC than any other lan¬ 
guage. Ycr BASIC is often scoffed ar 
as “too weak 11 and “not powerful 
enough. 11 That’s nor really true. Take 
Microsoft BASIC 2.1 and add a 
generous helping of the CLR ma¬ 
chine-languages and you have a 
powerful tool. While rite lack of a 
compiler (which is due Real Soon 
Now) is a drawback, the availability 
of a good runtime module makes 
developing in BASIC practical. 

The Clear Lake Research ma¬ 
chine-language libraries are the best 
thing to happen to Microsoft BASIC 
since version 2.0 was released. I can 
already hear some of you asking: 
“What’s a machine-language li¬ 
brary?” The rest of you are asking: 
“What makes the CLR libraries so 
great? 11 

In simplest terms, a machine-lan¬ 
guage library' is a collection of rou¬ 
tines that can be accessed from BA¬ 
SIC just by using their names the 
way keywords are used; they offer a 
way to extend the power of BASIC. 

What makes the CLR libraries so 
great is the variety 7 and number of 
routines that they provide. They 
have something for the BASIC pro¬ 
grammer of every 7 level of expertise, 
from simple commands for sorting 
and text-hand ling to accessing re¬ 
sources using pointers and handles. 

Clear Lake Research offers three 
independent libraries. Tool Lib pro¬ 


vides over 100 new commands, in¬ 
cluding scroll bars, wide access to 
the Mac’s QuickDraw routines and 
ways to deal with resource files. 
MathStatLib contains about 20 
more statements that provide matrix 
operations (handling numbers in ar¬ 
rays), statistical calculations and sort¬ 
ing functions. The third CLR li¬ 
brary', which is not covered here, is 
Speech Lib. It lets users make the 
Mac talk from BASIC, using Apple’s 
MacinTalk driver, 

USING YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY 

To use a library routine in a 
BASIC program, first call it using 
BASIC’s LIBRARY statement . For 
example, to use Tool Lib, write: 
LIBRARY “ToolLib” 

After that, anv routine in the li¬ 
brary' can be used hv naming it, and 
providing parameters for it just as 
you use arguments with BASIC 
keywords. For example, Change- 
Cursor 4 changes the cursor to the 
familiar wristwatch, and SortString 
25, LastNamcS(O) sorts 25 ele¬ 
ments of tlie array LastNameS, be¬ 
ginning ar clement 0. 

There are a few restrictions on 
using the new commands. The ma¬ 
jority' of numeric arguments for the 
routines must be integers. Thus the 
% sign must be repeatedly typed to 
define variables as integers. That gets 
tedious. Defining all variables as in¬ 
tegers with DEFINT alleviates that 


problem, but causes a worse one — 
each command must then have a 
precision definition tacked on to it 
so it will match the type of variables 
used with it. 

Something else that takes getting 
used to is the tact that any variable 
used with a library" command must 
be initialized before it is used. For 
instance, the command OpenRes- 
FUe “PatternRcsource”* ref% 
opens the named resource file and 
gets a reference number for it that 
can be used anywhere in the rest of 
the program. However, if this state¬ 
ment is the first time the variable 
rd% has been used, the program will 
stop with an error; you have to 
initialize rei% ( u rcf% - 0”) before 
you use it. 

There arc a few more restrictions. 
A library 7 that is being used must be 
on the same disk as BASIC itself; if 
die library is incorporated into the 
program (see sidebar), then the pro¬ 
gram has to be on the same disk as 
BASIC. 

These small restrictions are noth¬ 
ing when compared to the freedom 
that the new routines provide. There 
is no way to describe all the routines 
that the CLR libraries provide in a 
magazine-sized article — that would 
take a book. Instead, we’ll take a 
look at some of the highlights. 

SLINGING STRINGS 

The most simple of all the Tool- 


by Sharon Zardetto Aker 


JULY 1986 MACUSER93 






BEYOND BARE BASIC 


left _ 

A string in 8 textbox 
is automatically 
wrapped, and you 
have the choice of 
three justification 
options. 


_ Right 

A string in a textbox 
is automatically 
wrapped, and you 
have the choice of 
three justification 
options. 


Centered 

A string in a textbox 
is automatically 
wrapped, and you 
have the choice of 
three justification 
options. 


Figure 1. 

Tlje Text Box routine 
prints text with automatic 
word wrap in a previously 
defined area of the 
screen. 


Lib routines is an alternative to the 
PRINT statement, DrawText is used 
in exactly the same way PRINT is 
used: DrawText a$. 

How could the simple PRINT 
statement be improved upon? Well, 
a loop that prints a short string 1000 
times with the PRINT statement 
takes 100 seconds to run. The same 
loop using DrawText rakes 3 sec¬ 
onds. 

Text Box is another simple yet ele¬ 
gant routine. With it, you can print 
any text within a previously defined 
area. Within the textbox, whose co¬ 
ordinates arc stored in an array, text 
is printed with automatic wrap¬ 
around — and it can be justified left, 
right or centered. If you’ve ever 
written routines that compare the 
width of a printing area and the 
pixel-width of a string, and then 
wrote a routine that would search 
the string for a space to break it, and 
then split the string to print it on 
two lines — well, then you know 
how useful Text Box will be. (And 
your routine probably didn’t include 
justification options!) 


TANGLING WITH RECTANGLES 

Points, lines, rectangles, polygons 
and regions are die “shapes” easily 
handled with ToolLib because of its 
access to QuickDraw, It's amazing 
how much can be done with just a 
rectangle. 

To begin, it's very simple to load 
an array with rectangle coordinates. 
A simple example is SetRect 
rect%(0),20,10,200,20, 

Compare that ro the four assign¬ 
ment statements needed in regular 
BASIC to accomplish the same pur¬ 
pose, Programmers can also set up a 
rectangle array by referring to the 
two points that define the upper left 
and lower right corners, if those 
points are stored in arrays: Pt2Rcct 
comer 1% (0),oomer2%(0j^ect f fo(0). 

Once die rectangle is set, it can 
easily be redefined, using its coordi¬ 
nates. OffSet will keep the propor¬ 
tions intact but place it in a different 
part of the screen; InsetRect will 
change the height and/or width in or 
out by the specified number of pix¬ 
els. 

Your program can test whether a 


given rectangle is empty (Empty- 
Rect), find our if a certain point falls 
within its boundaries (PtlnRect), 
and even “map” its contents (Map- 
Rect). Given two specified rectan¬ 
gles, Equal Ilcct will test to see if 
they are equal; SectRect calculates 
their intersection; UnionRcct calcu¬ 
lates their union. 

A REAL DRAG 

The most impressive of the rou¬ 
tines available is DragGrayRcct. 
When an icon is moved on the 
desktop, the icon itself doesn't move 
to the new location until the mouse 
button is released — what moves is 
an outline of the icon. DragGray¬ 
Rcct lets your program perform this 
minor miracle very easily with rect¬ 
angles. {DragGrayRgn lets you do it 
with other shapes.) 

Once your program has detected a 
dick in the “target” rectangle* it can 
issue the DragGrayRcct command, 
and the rectangle’s outline is dragged 
around the screen until the mouse 
button is released. You specify the 
area within which the outline can 


THE STATEMENT MOVER 

CLR's ToolLib has over 100 statements 
in it. but you’ll never use them alt in a 
single program; on the other hand, there 
are many times you'll be using routines 
from more than one library in a single 
program. A large library takes longer to 
"bind'' to your program when you use the 
LIBRARY statement; using multiple libraries 
means they all have to be on the disk with 
BASIC. 

The Statement Mover utility provided 
with the CLR libraries lets you create a 
"sublibrary" made up of any statements 
from the main libraries. This single, smaller 
library can then be incorporated into the 
program itself, alleviating both the access 
speed and the separate file problems. 




t 


Source area 


Destination 

area 


Figure 2. 

Mapping takes a point, rectangle, polygon or region from one area of the screen and places rt 
in a congruent position in a second area. 


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LICENSING THE LIBRARIES 

If you want to prepare a program with 
CLR libraries for commercial distribution, 
CLR has licensing agreements available in 
which you agree to pay a licensing fee to 
CLR for the use of their copyrighted rou¬ 
tines. 

If you create a public domain or 
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routines in it. 



Figure 3. The DragGrayRect command lets 
you move outlines of objects. 


April 

o 

August 


December 


February 


March 

i E s+i* I 

;*;*;*, 

May 

I*E*E* 

January 

::: 
ijjjjj 

June 

s 


Figure 4. Yes, real scroll bars in BASIC! 


BASIC 

Routine 

CLR 

Routine 

Dog 

eardvark 

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cat 

Zebra 

Dog 

eardvark 

Giraffe 

cat 

goat 

goat 

horse 

horse 

mole 

mole 

unicorn 

unicorn 

vixen 

vixen 

Zebra 


Figure 5. The CLR SortString command dis¬ 
regards upper and lowercase characters. 


move, defining boundaries against 
which it will be “pinned” and 
boundaries outside of which it will 
disappear; you can even constrain 
the drag to horizontal or vertical 
movements. 

When using DragGrayRcct, you 
supply the coordinates of the origi¬ 
nal mouse dick; the routine returns 
the offset coordinates — how far the 
outline was moved, and in which 
direction. The outline disappears 
when the mouse button is released, 
but with the offset coordinates you 
know where to re-draw the rectangle 
to make it “move,” 

SCROLL BARS! 

Of the things missing from basic 
BASIC one item comes to mind 
more often than anything else: scroll 
bars. These commands are probably 
the most complicated of ToolLib s 
commands, and the otherwise excel¬ 
lent manual falls short in explaining 
them fully, but once you get them 
up and running, they work beauti¬ 
fully. 

The NewScroll statement sets up 
the scroll bar, using array coordi¬ 
nates to define its size and placement 
on the screen. NewScroll also allows 
the programmer to decide whether 
the scroll bar is visible or not, and 
provides the minimum and maxi¬ 
mum values for the scroll box, as 
well as its initial position. 

The SeroHText statement does the 
rest of the work. It takes the strings 
in an array that has been previously 
named and prints them in the rectan¬ 
gle defined, scrolling them as the 
user manipulates the scroll bar. 

Detecting a selection in the scroll 
area so it can be highlighted is a very 
difficult problem. First, you must 
figure our which string was clicked 
on by calculating the number of 
pixels from the top of the scroll area 
to the mouse click point* Then, 
using the height of the font that the 
strings are printed in, display the 
string which was selected. 

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an index of which string of the array 
is at the cop of the scroll area, so 
your program can figure out which 
one was clicked on. Executing the 
SeroHText routine again can high¬ 
light the selected string once sup¬ 


plied with the proper information. 

This sounds like a lot of work — 
and it is — but you only have to 
write the routine once, and then it 
can be used it in all your programs 
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OUT OF SORTS 

If you’ve written sort routines, 
you know there’s always an efficien¬ 
cy trade off': a simple bubble sort 
doesn’t take much memory, but it’s 
not fast enough with large numbers 
of items; a more complicated sort 
algorithm gives you more speed, but 
also takes more memory. Then 
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that assume a capital Z comes before 
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everything to get it to work right. 

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letters only when the strings arc 
otherwise equal. The simple com¬ 
mand: SortString 10, string$(l) sorts 
the first ten strings in the array 
stringS, starring with the first ele¬ 
ment. 

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there are separate commands for 
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double-precision arrays* And, with 
the addition of a single optional 
argument to the Sort statement, the 
sorting can be done in descending 
order* 

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have an index associated with it, so 
your program can keep track of the 
original positions of the array ele¬ 
ments. The benefit of this indexing is 
apparent if another array needs to 
match the order of the sorted one. 

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students in one array, and their final 
grades in another array. Printing the 
first four dements of each array 
yields this list: 

Bernstein 85 

Green 92 

Gosndl 89 
Woifion 77 

Sorting the grade array and print¬ 
ing out the dements gives: 

Bernstein 77 

Green 85 

Gosnell 89 

Woifson 92 

Woifson may be pleased with this 


96MACUSER JULY 1986 


























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won't like it. Taking a look at the 
index lor the grade array, however, 
shows their original positions: 

77 4 
85 1 

89 5 
92 2 

The solution here is to use the 
index numbers to print the list of 
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grade array, which is 77, is printed, 
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AND MORE TO COME... 

The CLR people can't leave well enough 
alone — fortunately. They are currently 
working on more routines which will be 
released either as a ToolLtb update or a 
second Toollib library, probably by the end 
of the summer. 

Two of the new routines give the results 
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With a well-designed resource file, 
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memory. Instead of creating a pat¬ 
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The difference between BASIC 
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When Microsoft conies out with 
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A TASTE 
OF PASCAL 

Our four-part series on this honey of a language 
begins with a “Shell” program. 


by 

Steven 

Martin 


PASCAL WAS THE FIRST HIGH-LEV- 
cl language for the Macintosh. Of 
course, it didn’t really run on the 
Mac, but rather on the Lisa (as the 
Mac XL used to be known). In fact, 
when Apple programmers started 
writing the original Mac software in 
Lisa Pascal , nothing ran on the Mac. 
From those prehistoric days, Pascal 
has retained both popularity and 
utility. Most of the first commercial 
Mac programs were written in Lisa 
Pascal. There is still a good deal of 
development going on in Pascal, 
only now there are Pascal compilers 
that run, and run well, on the Mac. 

In this series of articles we’ll show 
programmers who have at least a 
basic knowledge of Pascal how to 
start writing their own programs, 
programs that use the Mac interface 
and Toolbox routines. Since all Mac¬ 
intosh Toolbox routines are de¬ 
signed around the Pascal program¬ 
ming language, and since Inside 
Macintosh documentation itself uses 
Pascal for all of its examples, we’ll do 
the same. 

We’ll be using the TALL Pascal 
(AlacLanguage Scries) compiler. It 
conforms exceptionally well to the 


Lisa Pascal system and adheres to the 
standard Macintosh interface. Since 
our goal will be to create standalone 
applications for the Macintosh, the 
interpreted MacPascal system will 
not be used. But before we start to 
build applications for the Macintosh, 
we should review a few Pascal terms 
and concepts. 

MemTypcs are predefined Pascal 
types used by many of the Macintosh 
ROM routines, and are defined in 
TALL Pascal precisely as they are in 
Inside Alacintosb. TAIL provides a file 
called “McmTvpcs.ipas” for inclu¬ 
sion in Pascal programs requiring 
these types. MemTypcs are used 
throughout the Macintosh system, 
and are defined separately. Other 
types and variables are used by the 
Macintosh system, but are defined in 
files where they’re needed. The actu¬ 
al declarations are shown in 
Figure 1. 

A SignedBvtc represents any 
eight-bit character in memory. Be¬ 
cause Pascal packs SignedBytes to 
the bit level and an unsigned value is 
not packed, SigncdBytc is used in¬ 
stead of Byte. 

Ptr is a pointer to a SigncdBytc. In 
other words, a Ptr holds the memory 
address where a SigncdBytc can be 
found. A Handle is used to point to 
a pointer. While this may sound 
confusing, it is essential, because the 
Macintosh uses a dynamic memory 
configuration known as a Heap. 
When the Mac’s Memory Manager 
allocates memory on the Heap, it can 
move blocks of memory around to 
obtain a large enough area for a new 
item that needs it. When this is 
done, pointers arc not updated and 
may point to areas of memory’ where 
data no longer exists. The Memory 
Manager will update handles so data 
can still be accessed. 

A ProcPtr is used to point to 
Pascal procedures or functions so 
ROM routines can call them — 
thereby allowing Macintosh ROM 
routines to have some way of know- 


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A TASTE OF PASCAL 


ing that user-defined routines exist 
We will see how this is used later 
when some of the Macintosh Tool¬ 
box routines are discussed. 

Fixed, like Longlnt, are 32-bit 
numbers with fixed decimal places 
for fast number crunching, where 
moderate accuracy is needed. They 
are primarily used by the Quick¬ 
Draw graphics routines. 

A Str255 is a string consisting of 
255 characters, the largest size string 
allowed by the Macintosh system* 
The first byte, String[0], contains 
the length of the string. The charac¬ 
ters are held in bytes 1 to 255 of the 
String. StringPtr is a pointer to a 
String, and will typically point to the 
first (length) byte. A StringHandle 
points to a StringPtr, allowing dy¬ 
namic memory allocation of Strings 
by the Memory Manager. 

THE TOOLBOX 

What is the Macintosh Toolbox? 
The Toolbox is a set of predefined 
functions and procedures that exist, 
ready-made in the Macintosh’s 
ROM. These arc the routines that 
automatically manage the handling 
of windows, menus, dialog boxes, 
desk accessories and dozens of other 
Mac features. The existence of these 


SignedByte = -128.127; 
Byte = 0..255; 

Ptr = A SignedByte; 
ProcPtx = Ptr; 

Fixed = Longlnt; 

Str255 = String[255]; 
StringPtr = A Str255; 
StringHandle = A StringPtr; 

FIGURE 1 

routines make the Macintosh 
unique, since ail programmers can 
use them to create a program that 
adheres to the standard Macintosh 
interface. 

These routines also make the Mac¬ 
intosh more complicated to pro¬ 
gram. Programmers find it difficult 
to remember all the built-in features 
of the Macintosh and how to use 
them. For this reason, Apple has 
divided the Toolbox into categories 
known as managers. Functions that 
operate on the same class of items 
are all part of the same Toolbox 
manager. For instance, all window 
manipulation procedures are part of 
the Window Manager. 


CALLING THE TOOLBOX 

Using Toolbox routines is identi¬ 
cal to using any other Pascal func¬ 
tion or procedure. The routine’s 
name is used, along with any param¬ 
eters the routine needs to complete 
the task. For example, to change the 
size of the current font to 12 point, 
use: 

TextSizc(12); 

Tliis invokes the Macintosh ROM 
routine TextSize. The formal Pascal 
declaration for TextSize looks like 
diis: 

Procedure TcxtSize(size: Integer); 

TextSize is a procedure accepting 
one parameter that is an integer. It is 
not necessary to declare this proce¬ 
dure in the program since the Pascal 
system lias an Include file that de¬ 
fines this procedure for us. We do 
have to tell the compiler we wish to 
use that file. With TAIL Pascal, die 
method of informing the compiler 
that we wish to include a file in our 
program is with the {Si} directive. 
Thus, to include the file diat has the 
declarations for the MemTypes dis¬ 
cussed above we would have a line in 
our program like this: 

{Si MemTypes.ipas} 

Note that with the new Hierarchi¬ 
cal Filing System (HFS) on the 


OUR FIRST PASCAL LISTING... 


PioqiMS 5h«U: 

Fro qivi that derif,t) an Scpty ihell appi ication, mi a program 
1 ncorporat a a the minimal code required to handle window and cejiu 
Mnlpdlstionn. Desk acceaotJei ate aleo handled. 

copyright c 1986 by Steven Han in April J. m*) 

{SI Faecal : , jFa&cai3yjttia:He*Typ(f3.1p** } 

{51 r asea1 2 ;FaecalSystem:QuickC raw. 1pan j 
[51 PmciIJ j FascaISystea:osintr, ip*i ! 

{Si Pascal^ t PiKJlSyKra: Tool 1 ntfi. ipii ) 


Const ( Hfnu stuff 1 

ApplCttfeflu - 2JS; 

T L leMenu - 25Tf 

Vdf j Global progrAa stuff 1 
finished: Boolean,' 

{ screen stuff 1 

Fact,- 

t Sect ; 

Screen: Beet; 

E 1* ir.tto*# stuff J 
rr/Windov: HindcwTtr; 

I--— — End of Globali 


[Mali Act**acie*j 
[for the file Hono.I 

[flsnfl for program termination.I 

[Area where window can be ! 

[Area that window 1 • site is allowed,I 
(tCrOirt Area.) 


Procedure InitThlngs; 

{ mis procedure initialises- all of the “ool&o* HinaqnrO. + 

Begin 

tn-tGr*f ((mePott); (Initialise QuickDraw] 


HorcMsEtorn: |£ntr4 pointer blocks at the bottom df heap, f 

nortnmori; 

HoreHetten; 

Hertttuteraj 
MoreHaeter i.- 

E initialise ev«rvtnir>d in »» this li the startup Application, } 

IflltfOBtlJ 

Ini (Window*; 

InitHuiuf 

TElnitr 

JnitSialoq* mni; 


rifliihtd r« False; (Progrea teralnator aet to false.} 

riuihf vlfita jtveryCvent, Q ); {Clear all pravloui event a. I 

F.nd: { InitTMnQB ) 

— --- me setups —«——- - - - ' ) 

Procidii? SatUpWl cndowi. 

E creates our applications window, j 
Var 


«wct: Fact; 

Type of*: Integer; 
viaiEia. 

GoAway: boolean; 

FUffUal: Longlnt; 


I Rectangle holds rice Of we window } 

< Type of windsw ** wm be using } 

( Set true if we want ni window to te visible I 
j Set true if we want a CcAvay (close! to* ] 

( Reference nx^er returned by Klrdw Kinager 1 


flegln 

E Croat* this window with I^Vlndow. cottld use Raaources and Get*}fidaw. 
SotSett dflUsft. i. 39 + i'SSl i 

Typa_<ofli i* Of (Regular dOCuwht window, ? 

Visible s» Tn»f [Wilt appear j nwdi a t e! y, 1 


> 


CrtAWfly J- Ttu*; 

i^Klcdow j Mil, 

wneetj. 

'Untitled', 

Visible. 

Type off, 

HU," 

EdAway, 

faCValJ; 


(Give it S Close bos,! 

(I4t Window Ka&agtr allocate it.) 
(Defines window site,! 

(Window title.I 

(trill ba Visible St start, ] 

[behind everyone else.| 

[31-bit valu« that can be used by A|-p*| 


erdf r settp* in-dowu i 
Procedure SetUpHeicusf 

L Set up the He.ftu tii, and add the desk accesoxies. 1 
Vex 

MenuTopic: Henurtandi*; 

Afplat StflSSi 

Begin 

Apple[0] cnrfl)? 

Apple)lj t- clir (ZQk; (Chr(20) - Chicago Font. Apple j 

HenuTgpic i» HeuManu(AppleHenu^Apple); (rut an Apple on the Mer.u Bari 
AddPesMenu (Mar.'jtcp 1 c, 1 PAVh 1 \ s |Appends all naraa into I _rtr 

rns*rtH*nu(Hiiid1?oplc'. 0} j EAdcis it to H*r.u Kangsger llst.l 


Hu nuTcp id :■ NevMenu TF1 leHer.u, ' Pi 1 a * \ j (50 we can quit 11 
Appi.-wHenuCManuTgpic, 1 Quit^" 1 t (Hat a keyboard equivalent.} 

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106 M A C U S E R JULY 1986 

















Macintosh and Macintosh Plus we 
must specify a pathname for the 
compiler to find where the Include 
files are located. This is done by 
including the disk volume name and 
the folders which contain die needed 
files, each separated by a colon* 
Thus, if the MemTvpcs.ipas file were 
on a disk called Pascal! and in a 
folder called PascalSystcm, then the 
proper directive would be: 

{SiPascal2: PascalSystcm: 

Me m ry pcs upas} 

THE SHELL 

Knowing which Toolbox routines 
need what parameters can be diffi¬ 
cult, Here, we'll explain the impor¬ 
tant procedures as we encounter 
them, and explain how they’re used* 
To do this we will examine what is 
known as a “Shell ” program* This 
program is extremely simple and will 
only allow us to open a window, 
create our own menus and use desk 
accessories* Tt won't do anything 
else, but it will provide a place to 
learn how the Macintosh ROM rou¬ 
tines are used. Later, we’ll see how 
to add procedures to the Shell pro¬ 
gram in order to create our own 
application. Listing 1 gives the full 
source code for the Shell program. 


Looking at die Main program 
bodv, we see that it consists of only 
four procedures. While this could be 
considerably more complex, these 
four blocks are all wc need* We also 
notice that there are only about a 
half dozen globally declared con¬ 
stants and variables* Each will be 
examined as vve run into them in the 
program. Here’s a brief explanation 
of each section of the program. 

The InitThings procedure handles 
die initialization of the Macintosh 
Toolbox routines. Each of the Tool¬ 
box managers the program will use 
must be initialized before it can be 
called from the program. In some 
cases wc could assume that these 
routines have already been initialized 
by another application (like the 
Finder ), but it could turn out that 
out program is the Startup program. 
So wc must always call these Init 
routines at the beginning* InirGraf is 
a routine that initializes QuickDraw* 
There is a global variable called The- 
Port already declared in the 
QuickDraw.ipas file. This variable 
must be passed to InitGraf to set up 
the proper location for the Quick¬ 
Draw variables* 

The MoreMastcrs routine creates 
a block of master pointers (handles) 


in the Macintosh’s heap so that dy¬ 
namic memory management can be 
done. Calling this procedure five 
times should create enough master 
pointers for most applications, al¬ 
though five is not the limit. 

Next, we have the various calls to 
initialize the Toolbox routines. 
(We 5 ll do all of them even if we 
won’t need them all.) The parameter 
passed to InitDialogs is a ProcPtr 
which points to a set of routines that 
will be used by the system if there is 
an error. Passing a Nil to this routine 
tells die system to use the standard 
bomb dialog boxes wc have all come 
to know' and love. 

After the Inks wc set our own 
global variable Finished to False* 
This boolean will tell us whether or 
not QUrT has been selected from the 
File menu. 

Finally, we cal! the FlushEvents 
routine which clears the Event Man¬ 
agers queue of pending events. This 
clears up any tasks that may have 
been left unfinished by a previous 
program* We use the predefined 
constant Every Event to make sure 
wc clear every event* After Init¬ 
Things is finished the menu bar will 
be blank and the desktop will be 
(continued on page 142) 


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Monthly tips and techniques that save time and trouble. 


MACWRITE 

When attempting to paste a Mac- 
Drn ip graphic into a large Mac- 
Write document, you usually get a mes¬ 
sage informing you that the Clipboard is 
too large to transfer. To make matters 
worse, the Paste command fails. To get 
around this, first Paste to a new, empty 
MacWrite document, then Cut and Paste 
into the desired document. 

Larry D. York, lewisville, rx 

When printing MacWrite 4.5 doc¬ 
uments, the program often takes a 
very long time to scroll the page out of 
the printer after it has finished the last 
page. The delay’s length is in direct 
proportion to how much scrolling has to 
he done. Avoid this time-waster by 
choosing the on-screen Caned box as 
soon as the last line of output has 
completely finished printing. This causes 
the printer to take over and scroll the 
page out, while MacWrite regains imme¬ 
diate control. 

Marty Czachgr, Jr., Springfield, pa 


FINDER 

S i* you have hooted up on one 
disk’s Finder and vou want to use 


* File Edit Search Format Font Style 




.. 


[^11^] □ 6 llnes/lnch 



Meed to count your characters? aaufl isWasa 


iBfaifiiiftaia asn*a flfeflgnflfas ifasm Cfaiffijrito nwssnat. gaa Sfrisaa JUiaaJba 

t t 


foffJllL vou have a pretty good character count (that 
includes blank spaces). 


Need to count the number of 
characters in a line, series of lines, 
or document in MacWrite 4.5? Select the 
line or lines and choose underline and 
outline from the Style menu. If you look 
closely at die on-screen underscoring, 
vnu’ll notice that at each 15 characters 


{including spaces), there's a small dot 
inside the double underscore lines. 
Count the dots, multiply bv 15, and add 
the number of characters to the right of 
the last dot. The dots don't appear in the 
line when printed. 

Paul Balvoz, flagstaff, az 


another disk as the startup disk, run the 
other disk’s Finder like an application by 
double-clicking on it while holding 
down the Option and Command keys. 
David Chang. Houston, tx 

Here is a quick way to organize 
icons alphabetically using Finder 
4.1. Begin by opening the disk or folder 
to be aphabetized. Then select BY NAME 
from the View menu. Choose select 
ALL from the Edit menu and drag all of 
the files (grab them by the mini-icons 
located to the left of the file names) out 
onto the desktop. They will show up 
there as normal icons piled on cop of 
each other. Now select BY ICON for the 
original folder or disk, and drag the 
icons back onto the disk or folder's 
grayed icon. The files will be arranged 


E 


alphabetically (from left to right, top to 
bottom). 

Charles Dunn, ithaca, nv 

MACINTOSH PASCAL 

<y ^ \ If your Macintosh pascal program 
K29 is very large, or it's just a memory 
hog, avoid “out of memory" problems 
by using the “hidcalP command to hide 
all the w indows. Then show them only 
as called for and necessary' during execu¬ 
tion. An open program window can 
consume over 20 percent of the available 
memory' in a 512K Mad 
Cliff Morrison, salt lake city, ut 

FILE 

M.. Here's a simple method for speed- 
ing up data entry' into File. Rather 
than leaving the database window open 


Compiled by David Bicrby and Steven Bobber 


to the screen size (default setting), close 
it up as far as it will allow-; this shows 
two lines only. Since File redraws the 
screen after completing an entry' (hit the 
Enter key- to go to the first field of the 
next curry), keeping the window small 
requires less to be redrawn, speeding 
things up considerably. 

Jerry Chapman, Indianapolis, in 


DISKS 

If vou change labels on your disks 
fairly frequently, youll often see a 
build-up of the sticky residue left over 
from the old labels. The easiest way to 
remove it is by dabbing it with a little 
rubber cement thinner on a Q-rip. This 
cleans the disk without damaging its 
plastic casing. Just be very- careful not to 
get any thinner in any of the openings as 
that could destroy the disk. 

Step i ianie Feral i am ail a estates, n 


Tsr 

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TIP SHEET 


MACPAINT 

There are a number of keyboard 
i shortcuts char can Lx 1 used ro 
change the font of text that's just been 
entered, COMM AN I> 5 H1 FT- PERIOD 

changes the entire block of text to the 
next lower font shown in the font menu, 
and COMMANH SHIFT-COMMA changes it 
to the font directly above the one cur¬ 
rently checked in the listing. 

Sharon Schwartz, ivestport, ct 

MacPaint doesn't allow users to 
specify how many copies of a 
document to print. It’s one at a time. To 
work around this, duplicate the docu¬ 
ment in the Finder with the DU rut ATE 
command from the File menu, one copy 
for each print. I lold down the Shift key 
while selecting the documents (or drag a 
group selection), and then choose HUNT 
from the File menu. MacPaint will print 
out each file, resulting in multiple copies 
of the original file* 

Seth Brenner, Hartford, err 

FONT/DA MOVER 

r~A~i While in the Font/DA Mover main 

-• screen, holding down the Option 

key as you select a desk accessary tile will 
display the size of the file's data and 
resource forks in the lower left hand 
comer, as well as indicate whether or not 
the desk accessory has PICT resources 
(bit-mapped graph ics}. 

John Evans, prqvq* it 

i—Ti Hold down the Option key when 
closing a list of fonts or DAs, and 
the disk they're on will eject itself. I lold 
d< >wn the Option key when quitting, and 
all disks will Ik ejected* 

Nk;r Karp, new York. xy 

MACDRAW 

If you’re having trouble laserprint- 
1 ing small white type in a MncDraw 
document, first type the text in Outline 
style, fill in the background, stretch the 
document to double its size ( both hori¬ 
zontally and vertically), and then specify 
SO percent reduction in the Page Setup 
dialog. That should solve the problem. 
Robert Mcoowelu new york, ny 

SYSTEM 

Not sure of what version of the 
System file you’re using? Apple’s 
Resource Editor can tell you. In ResEdir, 
double-click the System file, and scroll 
through the window until you find the 
resource type “STRT Open it, and you’ll 


find a number of SI R resource files. 
Locate the STR with ID - U, open that 
(by double-clicking on it), and you'll see 
the version number and date that that 
System was created. 

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SPECIAL FROM APPLE 

Apple’s Chris Espinosa gave MncUser a 
large group of hints and bug reports that 
his group at Apple had compiled* Most 
applv to the most recent Systems soft¬ 
ware and a lot are arcane and esoteric, 
but a lot are useful. Here are the high¬ 
lights. 

When using the new Image Writer 
driver (version 2*2), picture quali¬ 
ty is darker for faster quality than for 
Best quality* This is a feature, not a bug. 

Desk accessories with a DRVR ID 
= 0 are not copied by the Font ID A 
Mover (version 3.1). 

The Times, Helvetica and Courier 
fonts have been altered slightly to 
improve spacing on the LaserWriter, 
when used from a Mac Plus. This may 
affect text spacing in existing documents. 
There is no workaround and no fix* 

In any of the 5*x series Finders^ 
dragging a file out of the Trash 
onto a different volume removes the file, 
permanently, from both the Trash can 
and the destination volume. Remember, 
that in HFS, each folder is a separate 
volume* Therefore, be sure to put things 
back into their original folders if you 
remove them from the Trash, 

If you're using Finder 5.1 or 5*2, 
duplicating a file in the Trash 
(Why would anyone want to do that? — 
Ed*) can cause a system crash. 

The 2.2 version of the Image- 
Writer driver sometimes forgets 
how to recognize an I mage Writer II, and 
-assumes it has different paper handling 
routines than it actually does and no 
color. This will be fixed in the next driver 
version. 

When the IjiserWritcr driver (ver¬ 
sion 3.0) encounters a change in 
style, and then a change back, in a 


downloaded font (or in a Macintosh bit¬ 
map font), it re-downloads the original 
style. This fills up the LaserWriter’s 
virtual memory very quickly, and die 
LaserWriter resets in the middle of the 
print job; 

The LaserWriter Plus can lose 
track of die Apple to Adobe char¬ 
acter mapping on the new fonts, causing 
some optional characters nut to print 
and others to print incorrectly. Tills 
doesn’t always happen* The solution is to 
power die LaserWriter off and dien on* 

Version 3,0 of the LaserWriter 
driver can release the System font 
(Chicago 12) on a Mac Plus behind the 
back of the Font Manager. The next time 
the System font is needed, a crash occurs* 
This is rather rare* 

Sometimes the mouse will lock 
when starting Font IDA Mover ver¬ 
sion 3,1 or Installer version 2*1. The 
solution is to reset and try again* 

During a Shut Down, both Find¬ 
ers 5,1 and 5*2 fail ro dose desk 
accessories and don’t send a Good Bye- 
Kiss. Tills will cause accessories with 
open files to have serious problems. 
When using these Findm t be sure to 
close all DAs before shutting down. 

Screen dumps (FKEY-3 or COM¬ 
MA ND-SHlFT-3 ) beh avc didcrcntly 
with die new ROMs, They are queued, 
rather riian executed immediately* This 
means that pending actions (such as 
releasing the mouse button) take place 
before the FKEY action (such as taking 
the screen dump)* And that means you 
will no longer be able to screen dump 
showing menus pulled down. A possible 
solution is to use the public domain 
Camera desk accessory, which waits for a 
specified rime interval and then takes a 
screen shot. This queuing applies to all 
FKEYs (0 to 9), 














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FROM THE 
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Got a Mae problem' Something that 
you W like explained? Something you can't 
find the answer (hr anywhere else? Apple's 
Dan Cochran mil answer your questions 
every month in this space. When the ques¬ 
tions are too tough for him , hell get the 
answers front other members of the Mac 
team. So ask what you need to know and get 
your answers straight from the source! 

Send your questions to Dan care of Mac- 
User, 25 West 39th Street , New York, NT 
100 IS. Dan will read ail of your questions, 
but, unfortunately, he may not be able to 
answer individual queries. Watch this space 
fir the pick of each month’s Q 6" A crop. 

! recently purchased a Mac Plus and 
the dealer tells me I need to buy a fan tor 
the machine, Something about the heat 
caused by the additional memory. Is a 
tan really necessary tor the Mac Phis and 
if so why hasn't Apple built one into the 
machine? 

Much Hknninukr 

KANSAS (TlX MG 

I had an after-market 512K upgrade 
done on my 128K Macintosh and no¬ 
ticed an unusual increase in the amounts 
of bombs anti error messages. After 
reading many conflicting reports on 
power supply overhearing, t installed a 
fan box which sucks air our of the vent in 
the carry handle. It looks ugly, but the 
bombs and error messages have virtually 
disappeared. However, Pm concerned 
about the effects of forcing air into the 
machine. If air gets forced in, so does 
dust and other possible contaminants. Is 
this something to worn' about? 

James Cobb 

NORFOLK. VA 

Pve received a number of questions relat¬ 
ing to fans and whether or not they are 
actually needed. All of the Macintosh prod¬ 
ucts we have shipped to date , including the 


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I28K, 5J2K and Macintosh Pius are well 
within the guidelines wc'iv established for 
proper convection cooling. These guidelines 
specify that the interna! temperature of the 
boards shouldn’t he more than 15 degrees 
Celsius higher than the outside temperature 
(ambient worn temperature). The temp na¬ 
ture is measured by a special probe placed * l A 
inch from the circuit boards. In a conven¬ 
tional operating atmosphere a fan is not 
required for any of our Macintosh CPU 
products as they arc shipped. 

Certain aftermarket upgrades, most no¬ 
ticeably the HyperDrive, significantly raise 
the internal temperature of the machine 
and therefore fans are appropriate and even 
required. With so many after-market RAA/ 
upgrades on the market I can’t provide a list 
of those that eonfonn to our guidelines. 
With respect to the Mac Plus, ifs true that 
there arc 16 more RAM chips on the 
motherboard than there are in the 512K 
machine. However, the use of seven new 
CMOS components has held the power 
consumption and heat level to the same level 
as the 512K machine. 

Forcing air into the Macintosh in a 
dusty, smoky envhvnment is certainly some¬ 
thing to be concerned about. If you operate 
war machine in such an cnvhvnmmt I'd 
forgo a fan and try to cool the local 
environment ns much as possible. In cases 
like this, heat is usually the lesser of the two 
evils. Thanks to Ed Colby, Didier Diaz and 
Rod Archer (Manager for Environment 
Lab Sendees) for this mformation. 



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Using the Resource Editor, how can I 
change the design of icons? Pm able to 
edit the Icons and save them but when 1 
return to the desktop the icons Pve 
changed looked the same, 

Nelson Haukap 
AMES, IA 

I recently made a program thar I 
wanted to make more professional look¬ 
ing by using \ neat icon. Is there any way 
possible using either Macintosh Pascal or 
Microsoft BASIC to make my ow n cus¬ 
tom icons? 

Terry Bird 

NEW YORK. NY 

Rather than rehash the Icon Stoty again 
Pm going to tell von where to find the 
definitive information on Icon creation, 
editing and bundling. First, get hold of a 
copy of the Premiere and November 1985 
issues of Mac User. Bill Sternberg’s two-part 
ankle, entitled “The GvumiePs Icon Cook¬ 
book , ,J tells ail , Second, get a hold of the 
Res Ed it program and documentation that 
comes with the May 1985 Sojhmre Supple¬ 
ment. Third, take a took at Macintosh 
Technical Note #48 on Bundles. Macintosh 
Technical Notes arc produced by Macintosh 
Technical Support and are available at $25 
for a subscription covering all notes produced 
in a year. Tech Notes are also available on 
many electronic services and bulletin boards. 
In particular, they will be found in Data 
Libmty 8 of the Macintosh Developer’s SIG 
on CompuServe (it's open to all, not just 
developers). If you want your own copy sent 
directly fivm Apple , get a subscription by 
writing to; 

Macintosh Technical Notes 
Apple Computer Mailing facility 
467 Saratoga Avenue, Suite 621 
San Jose, CA 95129 

The May 1985 Sojhmre Supplement is 
also available from the same address for 
S75.Q0. 


I just got my Mac Plus today and 1 
love it, but there's something thafs both¬ 
ering me. Pve been using a Mac for quite 
a while now at work, so Pm very' used to 
it and the settings I use on the Control 


IIS M A C U S E R JULY 1986 


AMOY MARTIN 




















Panel. Although the new control panel is 
much dearer, there is no way to set the 
number of times a menu item blinks 
w hen you select it. It's really driving me 
crazy to watch everything blink three 
times. Is there any wav of turning this 
“feature'" off? 

Steve Nicholson 

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA 

Yes. For space reasons the menu select 
blink control nw removed front the new 
Control Panel desk accessary that ships with 
the new Mae Plus system (versions 3.0 and 
biff her). Control panel settings need to be 
presented when the Macintosh ts turned off 
so that they will be present the next time yon 
turn your machine on. This injbnnntion is 
kept in 20 bytes of parameter RAM stored 
in the clock chip alonjj with the current time 
and dare seninjf. The clock chip is powered 
by the batten- in the back of your Macintosh 
so the settings are presetted even when the 
power is turned offl 

Even thoujih you can't set the menu-hi ink 
control with the new Control Panel, the 
number of times the menu hem will blink is 
stored in the jjlobal variable Menu Flash. 
The default mine for this variable is 3. If 
you re a programmer you can nmte a 
routine to modify the mine of this variable 
by call hip the Toolliox procedure SetMenu- 
Flnsh, If you're not into propramminp 
-amply boot a disk with an old Control Panel 
and set the menu to blink according to your 
preferences. As luntj as yonr batten holds out 
and provided von don't attain alter the 
settinjjs you V/ be tu business. 

My question deals with x-ray devices 
used to screen passenger carry-on bag¬ 
gage in airports. Does this process kill 
the information stored on disks if you 
send them through the machine? 

Kim Allan Macnar 

SASKATCl U-VVAN, CANADA 

Information is stored on diskettes magnet¬ 
ically, Theoretically, x-rays shouldu 7 affect 
them, I and others here at Apple dot Ft 
believe a word of it. I have personally lost 
infmiuation on disks winch / believe hviv 
caused by a upon security devices, possibly the 
magnetized cntiyways that you walk 
throujfh pnor to plane boarding. For that 
matter , whether it's superstitious or not, I 
don V even like to put my Macintosh tbmujh 
these devices. 

Keep in mind also that the motorized bap 
movers, both for checked bappape mid cany¬ 
on baps, have lartje motors* often rtpln 
under the canyinp surface. These mot on 
have lartje mapnetic parts and may do as 
much damape ns x-ray machines. 


Have all your media inspected by hand. 
He it a' to be safe then sony. 


When using ResEdit and Fedit, fYc 
noticed dialog boxes that allow you to 
check boxes labeled SYSTEM HEAP, PUR 
GEABLE, LOCKED, PROTECTED, PRE¬ 
LOAD, INITBI1, CHANGED, BUSY, BOZO 
and BUNDLE, What do they all do or 
mean? 

Tim Thomas 

BELLINGHAM, WA 

They mean trouble if you don't know 
what you're doinp. These boxes allow you to 
set and modify a proup of bits nr refer to as 
a file's Finder attributes. Tin Finder needs 
information about each file on the desktop 
and these bits specify’ such thinps as whether 
a file can be copied, whether a file is visible 
on the desktop, whether a file is in me, and 
whether a ft/e has its own personal icon 
associated with it. 

While these attributes air primarily of 
interest to the programmer there are some 
valid reasons for users to know about them. 
Most of these Finder attributes are discussed 
in the File Manajja * chapter of Inside 
Macintosh. / u discrimina t e modi ft eat ion of 
these bits can result in a lot of headaches and 
problems. Don't mess with them if you’re not 
sure, but if you insist on expevimenttnp 
make certain you re war kina with a back-up 
copy of the files in question , 


This isn't so much a question as a 
comment on your answer to another 
question. In t he April 'S6 issue of Abac- 
User, on page 116, you stared that 
there is no way to force the old flat- 
file structure on a volume that's over 
400K in size,” This may he true if you 
a re i >pe rat i ng frt mi with in the n cw 1 IIS 
structure. Bur if you bring up the Mac 
Plus with a 400 K MF'S boot disk you 




can put in a blank disk, initialize it and 
you'll find you have an 800K MFS 
volume! 

Klneim W. Philip 

FAIRBANKS, AK 

Tot frt rijjhtl I stand corrected and 
thanks for passimj this info mi to our 
readers. We’d also like to thank the many 
other people who brought this to our atten¬ 
tion. 


1 have a new Mac Phis and a number 
of pieces of software for it, hut the 
copying program I use only initializes 
the disks for 400K and I'd like all mv 
work disks to have the full 800K avail¬ 
able. Is there any way I can get around 
this and srill manage to get the copy¬ 
protected programs onto an BOOK vol¬ 
ume? 

Dennis Howard 

GLENDIVE, MT 

/ assume that you're only interested in 
copy/mj these proprams for yonr own use and 
back-up. The ament versions of most whole 
volume copy programs automatically initial¬ 
ize destination disks as 400K MFS volumes 
( Remember that most of these programs 
were written before HOOK w!times were 
possible.) If this is the case you're out of luck 
until a new version that supports ROOK 
fmnattinp comes out. Alost copy program 
publishers are preparing new versions that 
will work both with 11 FS and ROOK flat-file 
(MFSl volumes. Some should be available 
lr\‘ the time you rend this. Check with your 
program’s publisher to sec if yours is one of 
them. ^ 


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INTEGRATED SOFTWARE 

Crunch is an icon-driven relational spreadsheet that features 
hii versatile charting and database capabilities. Strong finan¬ 
cial logic, date and mathematical functions. Spreadsheets 
can be linked. The manual is clear and concisely written. 
Macros are not supported. $195. Paladin, 2895 Zanker Rd., 
San Jose. CA 95134, CP (Jan 86) 

Ensemble lets users create a database of words, pictures, and/or 
*** numbers; graph data; generate custom forms and link files 
for applications such as mail merge. Can perform calcula¬ 
tions and math functions on data. Capacity limited by RAM 
and disk size. $299.95. Hayden, 600 Suffolk St., Lowell, MA 
01854. CP 

Excel is THE power spreadsheet. Of the Mac, of the world. Has 
***** 256-column by 16,384-row capability. Features include a 
powerful, easy to use macro function (with a recorder to 
make creation simple) and elaborate charting facilities. Can 
link multiple spreadsheets, 51.2K+ Mac and external drive 
required. $395, Microsoft, 16011 NE 36th Way, Redmond, 
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Jazz provides well integrated modules for word processing, graphs, 
**•* worksheets, databases and communications. Each of the 
modules is substantial. HotView, where data placed in any 
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that data, is best feature. Jazz provides adequate coverage 
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80OK drive. $595, Lotus, 55 Cambridge Parkway, Cam¬ 
bridge. MA 02142, CP (Prem) 



Quartet is an integrated program that works on a 128K Mac, built 
**•* around a powerful spreadsheet with a full range of functions. 
It can also be used as a database and provides good quality 
charts from spreadsheet data. Documentation is adequate, 
but not too well organized, $199. Haba Systems, 15154 
Stagg St.. Van Nuys. CA 91405. CP 


BUSINESS ACCOUNTING 

Accountant's Choice is a powerful system built around a reiation- 
***** a I database, with functions accessed through menus. Stan¬ 
dard reports are provided but most can be customized. 
Multiple journals allowed. Number of accounts determined 
by disk space. General Ledger can stand alone or integrate 
with other modules, not yet available. Requires 512K+. 
printer and external drive. $695. Sierra Information Sys¬ 
tems. 10201 Torre Ave., Cupertino, CA 95014. CP (Dec 85) 
AMS General Ledger is a Ledger with five preset journals; Cash 
*•*• Disbursements, Receipts. General. Sales, and Purchases. 
Other modules are planned. Account ranges are preset. 
Menus and data entry are very straightforward. Flexible 
summary reports are built in, but customer and vendor 
information Is very minimal. $295. Applied Micro Solutions, 
PO Box 860. Fort Collins, CO 80522. CP 
Gallery Finance is a one-write system with General Ledger. Cash 
**** Disbursements, Payables and Receivables in a single pack¬ 
age, Additional modules to be added. Data entered in a 
journal is automatically posted to appropriate record card. 
Requires 512K+, printer and external drive. $795, 
Micromax Systems. 6868 Nancy Ridge Dr., San Diego. 
CA 92121. CP (Dec 85) 

Hardl&k is a complex integrated hard disk system (General Ledger, 
•*#• Receivables, Payables, Inventory, Payroll and Job Cost 
modules) that does not use Mac interface. Fully menu 
driven. Manual is detailed but complicated, with a few extra 
pages that make it Mac-specific. Flexible reporting, state¬ 
ments and account numbering; huge numbers of accounts, 
transactions, profit centers and detailed financial analysis. 
Requires hard disk and printer. $695 per module. Great 
Plains, Box 9739, Fargo, ND 58109. CP? (Dec 85) 
MacOnoWrlte Cash Disbursements is a simple, one-write check 
*** writing system. Limited functionality, but does allow some 
detailed information. Menus clear and easy to follow, but 
check printing can be confusing. Other modules planned, 
512K + and printer required, $245. Sierra, PO Box 485, 
Coarsegold. CA 93614. CP (Dec 85) 

Paiantlr is a simple, inexpensive accounting system for a 128K, 
* one drive Macintosh, Manual is clear and concise; program 
uses icons for common operations: menus are clear and 
detailed, with most operations easy to find and use. Flexible 
report formatting and a customized chart of accounts. 
Program is written in Microsoft BAS/C so it is very slow. Nice 
design but the speed is intolerable. Requires Microsoft 
BASIC, printer, $145 per module, Palantir, 12777 Jones 
Rd., Houston, TX 77070. NCP (Dec 85) 

Rage to Riches integrated accounting modules (Genera! Ledger 
***** and Accounts Receivable) uses Mac interface to the hilt. 
Information entered in one window automatically transfers. 
Menu commands all have command keystrokes, as can 
accounts. No detailed or flexible reporting. Very easy to use, 
although it can be confusing to operate with several windows 
on screen. Requires 512K+ and printer. $295 per module. 
Chang Labs, 5300 Stevens Creek Blvd., San Jose, CA 
95129. CP (Dec 85) 

Strictly Business General Ledger features clear, well-outlined 
***** set-up procedures and operations. Very flexible, with a 
custom chart of accounts; user-defined journals; up to 99 
profit centers per company with up to 100 departments 
each; and customized reports. Program print spools and 
allows priming of multipie documents. Requires 512K+. 
printer and external drive. $395. Future Design, 13681 
Wilfiamette Dr,* Westminster, CA 92683, CP? (Dec 85) 


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PERSONAL FINANCE 

Dollar* & Sente is a bookkeeping program suitable for personal, 
**• home and small-business use. Easy to use, with a good 
manual and excellent on-screen help. Will handle up to 120 
separate accounts or money categories. Uses standard 
double-entry accounting techniques. Reports can be gener¬ 
ated and either viewed on-screen or printed. Has simple 
graphing and charting facilities. $149.95. Monogram. 8295 
S. La Cienega Blvd., Inglewood, CA 90301. CP 
Electric Checkbook does exactly what the name says: keeps a 
***• running account of checkbook transactions, balances check¬ 
book to bank statements, tracks bills, and even prints out 
checks. Provides detailed financial statements, calculates 
net worth, lists expenses by category and tracks your 
personal cash flow, $79,95, State of the Art. 3191-C Airport 
Loop, Costa Mesa, CA 92626. CP 
Financial Cookbook provides nearly 3 dozen "recipes" to help 
—mm users figure out financial formulas (Le., mortgage costs at 
different percentage rates) by inputting pertinent data. Very 
user-friendly, $44,95, Electronic Arts t 2755 Campus Dr,. 
San Mateo, CA 94403. CP 

Financial Utilities Pack is a set of applications that allow users 
h* to figure annuities, compound and simple interest, depreci¬ 
ation and amortization. Simple and well documented, $69. 
Cognitive Software, PO Box 26948. Austin. TX 78755. NCR 
Forecast is e tax estimating and what-if program designed to work 
Mt with and use Dollars & Sense files. Straightforward, easy to 
use program, $69.95, Monogram, 8295 S, La Ctenega 
Blvd., Inglewood, CA 90301. CP 
The Home Accountant is a complete and easy to use financial 
*#*# system. Data entry is intuitive. All kinds of reports, including 
charts and checks, are easily generated. Entered data will 
update all relevant material $150- Arrays. 11223 South 
Hindry Ave,, Los Angeles, CA 90045. NCR (Apr 86) 

Will Writer uses a rule-based system to create wills valid in ali 
*** states except LA. Simple to use. comes with a complete 
book on wills. $39,95, Legisoft/Nolo Press, 950 Parker St.. 
Berkeley. CA 94710. NCP (Jan 86) 


DATABASES 

Buxlns** Fllovlslon is a masterpiece of Macintosh programming, 
♦m* the only true graphic database on any micro. Much more 
powerful than the original, accepts MacPaint graphics, 
$395. Telos Software, 3420 Ocean Park Bivd, Santa Moni¬ 
ca, CA 90405, CP (Feb 86) 

Factflndor is a free-form information organizer (medium-duty 
—mm database). Users enter data on to factsheets in any manner 
desired and select keywords. Searches are by name or 
keyword. Only one factsheet can be open at a time. 
Publisher offers free telephone support (800 number). 
$149.95. Forethought, 1973 Landings Dr.. Mountain View, 
CA 94943. NCP (Feb 86) 

FI I# is a flexible data manager. Creates files for a variety of data. 
—mm including simple graphics. Files are created in simple 
row/column format, but reports and forms are easily custom¬ 
ized by moving field names around on a blank form, $195, 
Microsoft, 16011NE 36th Way, Redmond, WA 98052, CP 
FileMaker is a nonrelational database that combines lots of power 
m—— with ease of use. Data entry is extremely flexible and ali 
items in all fields are indexed so that multiple criteria 
searches are both simple and fast. Calculation fields make 
the creation of invoices and similar documents a snap. 
Reports can include graphics and multiple data layouts are 
easy to construct. $195. Forethought. 1973 Landings Dr.. 
Mountain View, CA 94943- NCP 

File vision is a simple database that can change the way you think 
**■ about data and data organization. Records are based around 
user created graphics screens. Screens and records can be 
linked in complex ways. $195, Telos Software, 3420 Ocean 
Park Boulevard. Santa Monica, CA 90405. CP 


IxtBaxe is a small, easy-to-use database that allows users to join 

— or append files. It is the simplest, most accessible relational 
database available for the Mac. Supports calculated fields, 
including statistical summaries such as averages. Inte¬ 
grates with lstMerge and IstPorT, $195. DeskTop Software, 
244 Wall St., Princeton, NJ 08540, CP 

Helix is a relational database that makes extensive use of icons. 

— Excels in database setup and forms generation. Setup is 
made easy by the adherance to the Mac interface. The 
manual is clear, thorough and well-indexed. Too complicat¬ 
ed for most simple database applications, excellent where a 
relational database application is required. Requires a 
512K+ Mac and external drive. $395, Odesta. 4084 Com* 
mercial Blvd., Northbrook. IL 60062. NCP (Mar 86) 

The House keeper Is a home inventory database. Users can keep 
**■ track of assets for both tax and casualty purposes. Special¬ 
ized reports are easily generated. $59.95. Aegis Develop¬ 
ment, 2210 Wiishire Blvd,, Santa Monica. CA 90403, NCP 
(Dec 85) 

I Knew It's Here Somewhere stores information in a simple filing 

— system. Ideal for general household or small business use. 
Can cross reference up to five files at a time; perform 
simple, wild card, or multiple Key searches, and print 
selected items or whole files. $59.95. Hayden, 600 Suffolk 
Sl„ Lowell. MA 01854, CP 

Interlace is a flexible relational database that makes it simple to 
mm— create single or multiple fifes and establish links between 
files. Excellent report generator gives full control over 
appearance, style of output. Requires 512K+, second drive 
or hard disk highly recommended, $129 retail, $95 direct. 
Singular Software, 5888 Castano Dr., San Jose, CA 95129. 
CP (Apr 86) 

MacBaso is a forms-oriented relational database. Unfortunately, 
*— precise forms are hard to create Allows calculated fields 
and has quick and powerful search capabilities. Best when 
much data is to be looked up, but not frequently entered. 
Requires 512K+. $195. Eqtron Corp,, 330 Bay St., Toronto, 
Qnt M5H 2S8, Canada. NCP (Jul 86) 

MogaFllor is a simple file manager, its limited capabilities have 

— been far surpassed by cheaper and easier to use programs. 
Valuable only in conjunction with MegaForm. $195. Mega- 
haus. 5703 Oberiin Dr,, San Diego. CA 92121. CP 

Omni* 3 is a power database, featuring concurrent multiple file 
♦*** management. Can handle 24 files, 12 at a time, and is fully 
relational. Allows user to create custom environments in¬ 
cluding user-defined menus, commands and dialogs. Good 
report generation capability. Comes in single and multiple 
user versions. $495 (single user version). Blyth, 2655 
Campus Drive, San Mateo, CA 94403. CP (Mar 86) 
OverVUE is a power-packed relational database that has extensive 
m—mm sorting, summarizing and report generation capacity. Has 
macros and a charting function. Good manual. The program 
tries to anticipate every need conceivable in manipulating 
data. It can exchange files with a very wide variety of other 
programs (including IBM software), $295. ProVUE, 222 
22nd St.. Huntington Beach, CA 92648. NCP (Nov 85) 
Professional Bibliographic Systom is a database designed for 
—m storing and retrieving bibliographies. Predesigned forms for 
20 types of entries. Citations automatically formatted with 
correct punctuation for printing. $295. Personal Bibliograph¬ 
ic Software, PO Box 4250, Ann Arbor, Ml 48106. CP (Feb 86) 
Record Holder is a flexible, easy-to-use form-oriented data 
•*** manager, Set up is particularly simple and the search 
features are powerful. $49,95. Software Discoveries. 99 
Crestwood Rd., Tolland, CT 06084, NCP (Apr 86) 


NUMBER CRUNCHING 

CJIckOn Works hoot is a 50-row by 20-column spreadsheet that 
—m loads onto any system disk as a desk accessory- Though 
small in size, it has remarkable capabilities for a desk 
accessory. It produces tine, bar and pie charts and changes 


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in the worksheet automatically reflect in charts, $79,95, 
T/Maker Company, 2115 Landings Dr-, Mountain View, CA 
94043. NCP 

Multiplan, the first Mac product from someone other than Apple is 
*•*• beginning to show age. Still a very capable basic spread¬ 
sheet with simple sorting, 63 columns by 255 rows, many 
built-in functions, other standard spreadsheet features, 
$199.95, Microsoft, 16011 NE 36th Way. Redmond, WA 
98052-6399. CP (Mar 86) 

ProAnaly&ls is a powerful real estate investment analysis pro- 
***** gram. This program uses the Mac interface as well as any 
program yet published. Analytic power is combined with 
report generating so good you have to see it produce an 
extraordinary product. Requires 512K+, $295. Technalysis 
Services, 14555 DeBell Rd,, Los Altos Hilts, CA 94022, CP 
StatVtow is a high-powered statistical calculation package. Easily 
«*• and efficiently handles all the common statistical tech¬ 
niques and many uncommon tests. Has a user-definable 
area as well. Easy to use and well documented. $199,95, 
Brainpower, 24009 Ventura Blvd,, Calabasas. CA 91302, 
NCR (May 86) 

StatWorks is a general-purpose statistics package that is both 
«** powerful and easy to use, Handies all standard tests and 
procedures. Single variable and multivariate statistics are 
supported. $125. Cricket Software, 3508 Market St., Phila¬ 
delphia, PA 19104. NCP (May 86) 


GRAPHICS & DESIGN 

Animation Toolkit I lets users prepare “film clips" of moving 
— objects which play back at varying speed, like old-fashioned 
flip books. Drawings are built pixel by pixel in frames, using 
some of the tools from MacPaint. They can be copied and 
altered easily from frame to frame. Each film clip plays 
repetitiously as it is being constructed, A limited animation 
tool, but a lot Of fun. $49,95. Ann Arbor Softworks* 308Vs S. 
State St.. Ann Arbor, Ml 48104. CP 
Art Grabber with Body Shop is a desk accessory that lets users 
■*■• browse MacPaint documents* selecting and copying as they 
choose. Selections can be larger than screen size. Also 
included are MacPaint documents and templates to allow 
the creation of people in your art. $49.95, Hayden, 600 
Suffolk St, Lowell, MA 01853. NCP 
Chari is the standard to be matched in presentation graphics 
***• programs. Users can easily create area, bar, column, line, 
pie, scatter and combination charts, A total of 42 styles are 
provided. Limited to 100 data items (64 in a series) on a 
128K. approximately twice that on a 512K, $125. Micro¬ 
soft, 16011 NE 36th WAY, Redmond. WA 98052. CP 
ClIckArt Special Effects is a MacPaint enhancement desk 
accessory. Allows the user to distort, stretch, rotate and use 
perspective on MacPaint documents, A necessary addition 
for all serious users of MacPaint , $49,95, T/Maker, 2115 
Landings Dr,. Mountain View. CA 94043. NCP (Apr 86) 
ColorPrlnt facilitates color printing on the standard ImageWriter, 
**• MacPaint files set up as overlays are read into Col or Print, 
and the program controls proper positioning registration and 
colored ribbon switching. Good results require lots of hard 
work, but it's cheaper than an ImageWriter II. $49.95. Esoft 
Enterprises, PO Box 179, Owasso. OK 74055, NCP (Mar 86) 
Cricket Graph easily generates 12 graph types. Multiple windows 
***** can be displayed. Graph prints in up to 8 colors with up to 16 
patterns. Self-generating macro formatting. Switcher HFS* 
LaserWriter and plotter compatible. $195, Cricket Software* 
3508 Market St. Philadelphia, PA 19104. NCP (Jun 86) 
DaVIncI Building Blocks features predrawn blocks of brown- 
***** stone, garden, and skyscraper portions that can be cut and 
pasted together to form landscape and architectural draw¬ 
ings, Fun for even non-pro s, $79.95. Hayden, 600 Suffolk 
St,. Lowell. MA 01853. NCP 

EasySD is a three-dimensional, soiid modeling masterpiece. Four 
***** variable light sources, powerful sculpting tools and an 


exquisite user interface make this program a must-have for 
Mac graphics enthusiasts. Requires a 512K+ Mac. Enabling 
Technologies, Inc,, 600 South Dearborn, Chicago, IL 60605. 
NCP (May 86) 

Fluent Fonts is a two-disk collection of fonts. Forty-nine different 
•*** items are included. All install easily in user Systems. Most 
are well executed and some are extraordinarily nice. This is 
a real bargain for font lovers, $49.95. Casady. PO Box 
223779, Carmel, CA 93922. NCP 
Fontustlc is the best font editor now available for the Mac. 
***** Features a large editing window with a grid to make 
positioning easy. Select letters to edit by clicking on a 
matrix of the font. Allows scaling of existing fonts and 
previewing the various styles (italic, bold, etc,). $49.95, 
Altsys. PO Box 865410, Piano, TX 75086, NCP (Dec 85) 
Fontographer is a complex but excellent laser font creator. The 
***** fonts created have 300 bits per inch resolution. The fonts 
are actually downloadable PostScript files. $395. Altsys 
Corp., PO Box 865410, Plano, TX 75086. CP 
Full Paint is an expanded version of MacPaint. Features include 
***** full-screen drawing, multiple documents open simulta¬ 
neously. brush editing, movable tool palettes, special text 
effects and much more. It fills the gaps left by MacPaint. 
$99.95. Ann Arbor Softworks, 308 Vs State St., Ann Arbor, 
Ml 48104. CP (Jun 86) 

Home Design is a home planning tool that includes three disks 
*•** full of MacPaint files of household items needed to design a 
home. Art Grabber Installer is included for easy manuvering 
of items. The professional home designer, as well as the 
amateur, will feel at ease using this program, $79,95. 
Hayden. 600 Suffolk St., Lowell, MA 01854. NCP (Jun 86) 
Human Forms allows users to cmate perfectly proportioned 
*** humans in any flcstpre' qr position. Contains over 1000 
separate body parts. Tiny mark make limb* head and 
detail placement perfect Requires MacPaint, $59,95, Bert 
Monroy, 205 Luquer St.„ , Brooklyn, NY 11231, NCP 
Icon Switcher changes icons (for applications and the documents 
**•* they generate, permitting you to customize icons for person¬ 
al wo/k. New icons can be built pixel by pixel in the program 
or created in MacPaint and pasted in $19.95. PBI Software, 
1155B-H Chess Drive* Foster City, CA 94404. NCP 
The Mac Art Dept, is a collection of over 150 graphic images 
ranging from foods to hands holding signs to borders. Best 
suited for letterheads, memos, other business use. $39,95, 
Simon & Schuster, Computer Software Div., 1230 Ave. of the 
Americas, New York, NY 10020, NCR (Mar 86) 
Mac-a-Mug is an Identikit type program for creating faces from 
*** facial feature files. Uses scroll bars that are slow and jerky. 
Lots of creative fun. 512K+ Mac required, $59.95, Shaher- 
azam, PO Box 27731, Milwaukee, Wl 53226. CP (May 86) 
Mac the Knlfe/Vo I. 1: Treasury contains over 500 pieces of clip 
**** art in the form of MacPaint documents and two new fonts. 
The art is well organized and mostly high quality. The rulers* 
for on-screen measurement, and the disk label templates 
are particularly useful. If you only plan on getting one clip art 
disk, this would be a good choice. $39. Miles Computing, 
21018 Osborne Street, Canoga Park* CA 91304. NCP 
Mac the Knlfe/Vol. 2: Fonts contains over two dozen new fonts, 
***** Some of these (Paris and Stuttgart, for example are real 
stunners). If you do a lot of word processing try Paris 9 point 
(its a big 9 point) as your text face and use High quality 
printing. Some fonts have single key fractions (y 2 * Vi.), $49, 
Miles Computing, 21018 Osborne Street, Canoga Park, CA 
91304. NCP 

Mac The Ripper is a two-disk set of highly stylized graphics and 
***• large display typefaces. Both are extremely well done, and 
represent the high-end of the clip-art disk category. $49.95. 
Miles Computing, 21018 Osborne Street, Canoga Park* CA 
91304. NCP (May 86) 

MacDraft is an object-oriented graphics program. It sports ad- 
**• vanced features such as variable scaling, single degree 
rotation, complex arcs and a FatBits-like magnification 


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mode, it has some annoying quirks and a few bugs, and is 
best used to complement MacDraw t not replace it, $239. 
Innovative Data Design. 1975 Willow Pass Rd.. Concord, CA 
94520. CP (Feb 86) 

MacDraw is an object-oriented structured graphics program. Can 
be used to design forms, create presentation materials and 
do technical illustrations. Drawing sizes up to 8 feet by 10 
feet are possible. Text can be easily generated and integrat¬ 
ed in the graphics. MacPaint documents can be pasted into 
MacDraw r but not manipulated, $195, Apple Computer. 
20525 Mariani Ave,, Cupertino, CA 95014, NCP (Nov 85} 
MacPaint is the graphics program that started a whole new genre. 
***** Still the best freehand graphics tool, Version 1.5 supports 
512K+ Macs and the LaserWriter. Multiple tools, patterns 
and features too numerous to describe. A work of art for 
artists. $125. Apple Computer, 20525 Mariani Ave.. Cuper¬ 
tino, CA 95014. NCP (Nov 85) 

Mac Publisher is a tool for creating newsletters. Allows multiple 
**# page issues. Layout is fairly easy but hard to do precisely. 
Runs on a 128K Mac but is slow; a 512K should be 
considered a requirement. Printer support, including Laser¬ 
Writer, is good. Ideal for informal newsletters, not yet a 
professional tool. $99.95, Boston Software Publishers, 19 
Ledge Hi If Rd., Boston. MA 02132. CP 
MacPubll&her II is the souped-up version of MaePubftsher. Allows 
***• MacWrite and Word files to be imported and edited from 
within the program; saves each element separately; allows 
up to 96 pages in an issue (limited by memory): supports 
kerning, borders, cropping, telecommunications, command 
keys and a wide variety of printers; and it runs on 128K, 
single-drive Macs. $195, Boston Software Publishers, 1260 
Boylston St, Boston, MA 02215. 

Magic Slate is a graphics and design program with built-in special 
**• effects and custom features. Fun but sometimes difficult to 
use. Great for pattern design, block and geometric graphics 
and watercolor-style ' washes." Requires 512K+. $99. De- 
vionics, PO Box 2126, Covina. CA 91722. CP (Feb 86) 
M.U.D (MacroMInd Utility Disk) is a disk of various utilities for 
***** Mus/cWorks and Video Works owners. It also contains Cheap- 
Paint and Art Grabber 4- , two graphics desk accessories that 
are musts for graphics enthusiasts. Hayden, 600 Suffolk St., 
Lowell, MA 01854. NCP (Feb 86) 

PageMaker is an advanced layout and makeup program. Can 
**** easily create multiple page documents. Output is optimized 
for LaserWriter. Good documentation. $495, Aldus, 411 
First Avenue South, Seattle, WA 98104. CP (Nov 85) 
PlctureBase is a program and accompanying desk accessory for 
***** organizing MacPaint and MacDraw elements and files. 
Graphics are organized into libraries, and can be searched 
for by keywords. A multitude of display options, and an 
advanced interface make this package indispensable for 
quick access to graphics files. $69.95. Symmetry Corpora¬ 
tion, 761 E. University, Mesa, AZ 85203. NCP 
PotterMakar can enlarge MacPaint drawings by up to 3200 
*** percent. Full-screen cut and copy are supported, so any 
portion of a Paint document can be selected and scaled. 
Borders can be added automatically. Includes some nice 
digitized graphics files. Easy to use and fun, $39.95. Strider 
Software, Beecher Lake Rd., Pembine, W! 54156. NCP 
RaadySatGo Is a page makeup program for 512K+ Macs. Users 
■*** build up pages from blocks of text, graphics and rules. 
Resizing and scaling of blocks are supported. Each block 
can be precisely positioned. Text and art may be pasted in 
from another source or created within the program. Good 
LaserWriter support. $195, Manhattan Graphics, 163 Varick 
St., New York. NY 10013. NCP (Apr 86) 

Slide Skew Magician 1.3 is useful for creating full screen audio- 
*■* visual presentations on the Mac, Frame branching, improved 
editing capabilities, external cassette recorder synchroniza¬ 
tion and digitized sound capabilities make this much more 
powerful than the original. $59.95. Magnum, 21115 Devon¬ 
shire St.. Chatsworth, CA 91311. CP (Mar 86) 



Storyboardar produces working animated storyboards for use in 
•*** film and video production. Imports graphics files from 
MacPaint; allows screen masking to simulate televison, 
35mm or 70mm screen widths; allows limited animation and 
special effects. Storyboards can be printed in several 
formats. $495. American Intelliware, 330 Washington St.. 
Marina Del Ray, CA 90292. 

VldeoWorks is a full-featured animation package. Professional 
***** quality animations are easily accomplished using the tools 
provided. Features frame-by-frame and real-time modes. 
Comes with an art disk of predrawn images and Art Grabber 
(which allows the user to use any part of a MacPaint 
document in VldeoWorks). Includes many special video and 
sound effects, and on-disk examples. $99,95, Hayden, 600 
Suffolk St,. Lowell, MA 01854. CP (Nov 85) 


COMMUNICATIONS 

InTouch comes with its own communications command language 
***** able to do unattended sessions. Supports Xmodem, MacBin- 
ary and Kermit. Has a macro key function. Many sample set 
up documents and command language files provided. $145. 
Palantir, 12777 Jones Rd,, Houston, TX 77070. CP (Prem) 
MacTermlnal provides basic telecommunications and terminal 
« emulation for the Mac user. Doesn't have macros nor any 
sort of auto redial/auto logon capability. Best for those 
needing faithful VT100 or IBM 3278 emulation — it is 
superb at those, $99. Apple Computer, 20525 Mariani Ave., 
Cupertino, CA 95014. NCP (Prem) 

Mlcropbon# is a high-powered terminal program that's easy 
***** enough for novices. Very powerful command language al¬ 
lows full automation of communications, if desired. $74.95. 
Software Ventures, 2907 Claremont Ave., Berkeley. CA 
94705, NCP (Jut 86) 

Red Ryder is a full-featured telecommunications program that 
***** supports MacBinary, Xmodem and Kermit. Remote service 
procedures, auto procedure writer and keyboard macros 
allow automation of many operations. It is shareware and a 
real bargain, $40. The FreeSoft Corp, t 10828 Lackfink, St. 
Louis, MO 63114. NCPyul 86) 

Smarteom II balances power and ease of use. Capable of 
***** unattended operation and has a very powerful command 
language. Supports MacBinary, Xmodem, and Hayes Verifi¬ 
cation protocols. The large screen buffer can easily be 
archived both to the printer and to disk. $149. Hayes, 5923 
Peachtree Industrial Blvd,. Norcross, GA 30092. NCP (Jut 86) 
Telescape is the power telecommunicator's terminal program. Can 
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advanced features (except unattended operation). The docu¬ 
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(who can figure it out on their own). $125. Mainstay, 
28611B Canwood St., Agoura Hills, CA 91301. NCP (Prem) 
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***** graphics terminal and Data General DG200 emulation. 
Supports Xmodem and MacTerminaJ Xmodem protocols and 
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making Japanese text-entry as easy as possible, given the 
difficulties of the language. Great for students of Japanese, 
may find a place in international business as well* $300 
Counterpoint Systems, PO Box 1685. Cambridge, MA 
02138, CP {Apr 86) 

1st Merge is a mail-merge program that integrates data files with 
»*•* documents after a blueprint for documents has been de¬ 
signed. Features on-screen help, and the ability to add and 
search records. Requires Mac Write, $95, DeskTop Software 
244 Wall St,. Princeton, NJ 08540, CP 
Hayden: Speller checks spelling errors in MacWrite and Word 
documents against a dictionary of 20,000 common words 
and user-created dictionary. Reasonably fast and quite 
simple to use, $79,95, Hayden, 600 Suffolk St., Lowell, MA 
01854, CP 

Just Text is a professional level word processor and page makeup 
***** program that generates PostScript output. Comes with a set 
of LaserWriter utilities that allow total manipulation of art 
and text. Requires LaserWriter or other PostScript compati¬ 
ble output device. $195. Knowledge Engineering, GPO Box 
2139, New York, NY 10116. NCR (Dec 85) 

LaserFonta are new fonts designed for the LaserWriter. Users 
***» download them to their machines. Very high quality and very 
simple to use, W///amette (in Medium. Light and Extra Light) 
looks like Avant Garde. MicroFonts provides tiny* expanded 
and condensed versions of the LaserWriters own fonts, 
S29.95 each. Century Software, 2306 Coiner Ave., Los 
Angeles, CA 90064. NCR 

Le Conjugueur is a desk accessory that simplifies finding the right 
**** spelling for a French verb. Type a verb, select a person and a 
tense, and Le Conjugueur presents the correct form (and can 
even insert it for you). Good for casual French speakers or 
students. $49.95. Editions Ad Lib. 220 Grande-allee, Que¬ 
bec City, Quebec. Canada. G1R 2J1. NCP 
Liberty Spell Checker is a fast, effective interactive checker. The 
*•** dictionary is smaller than average, but well chosen. Unfortu- 
nately, it has a few misspelled words. $59.95. DataPak. 
14011 Ventura Bfvd., Sherman Oaks, CA 91423, CP 
Maclndexar is a good writer's utility that takes much of the 
**** mechanical work and time out of preparing an index. Works 
with MacWrite and Word , Can generate word frequency 
counts. $49.95. Boston Software Publishers. 1260 Boylston 
St,. Boston, MA 02215. CP (Jul 86) 

Mac Lightning is an interactive spelling checker that is both very 
***• fast and has an extensive, well thought out dictionary. Exists 
in the System as a desk accessory, $99.95, Target Soft¬ 
ware. 14206 SW 136th St. Miami, FL 33186. NCP 
MacSpel might Is a spelling checker that works with MacWrite 4.5 
«* (not 2.2!). Allows the user to create custom dictionaries. 
Works from within MacWrite. $89. Assimilation, 485 Alberto 
Way, Los Gatos, CA 95030. NCP 
MacWrite is the basic word processor that comes with the Mac. 
*•■• While it doesn't have every bell and whistle, it is more than 
adequate for most users. Features Include document size 
limited by disk space, global search and replace, page 
numbers indicated in the scroll bar and excellent LaserWriter 
compatabifity. Easy to use and well documented. $125. 
Apple Computer, 20525 Mariani Ave*, Cupertino. CA 95014 
NCP 

Mega Farms is a well designed forms generator and processor. 
Forms design is easy. Can use data from MegaFifer. The 
form filling and print functions are slow, possibly too much 
so for large scale use. $295, Megahaus, 5703 Oberlin Dr. 
San Diego, CA 92121. CP (Feb 86} 

QuIckWorti is a word processing accessory that adds sophisticate 
**## ed glossaries to MacWrite. Simple to install and use, yet 
powerful and efficient. $49.95, EnterSet, 410 Townsend 
St,. San Francisco, CA 94107. NCP 
Spellswell is an effective and powerful standalone spelling 
*•*■ checker. It has many advanced features such as capitaliza¬ 
tion and homonym checking and comes with a large, well- 
chosen dictionary. Full-featured, easy to use. with keyboard 


equivalents for menu commands. $49,95, Greene, Johnson. 
Inc,, 15 Via Chualar, Monterey, CA 93940. NCP (May 86} 
Word is a power word processor for the Mac. It has just about every 
•**• feature your heart could desire. Supports keyboard com¬ 
mands as well as the mouse. Does mail merge and 
multfcolumn text. Integrates with the rest of the Microsoft 
line. $195. Microsoft, 16011 NE 36th Way, Redmond, WA 
98052-6399 CP (May 86) 


ORGANIZATIONAL TOOLS 

Acte is an outline processor in desk accessory format. It has 
**** practically all the power of a standalone program, and then 
some. Can save files as Acta outlines, MacWrite or text files. 
A must-have for those who do outlining, $59.95, Symmetry, 
761 E. University Dr, Mesa, A2 85203. NCP (Jul 86) 
DoclalonMap organizes data to facilitate decision making. Unique 
*** weighting abilities make this a powerful tool. The decision 
analysis process is long and some times complex, but never 
difficult. $145. SoftStyle. 7192 Kalanianole Hwy,, Honolulu, 
HI 96825, CP 

MacProject allows a user to plan and track a project from 
*•* beginning to end. Uses CPM to produce schedules with start 
and finish dates for each task. Can report on resource 
interdependencies and generate all needed printed reports. 
$125. Apple Computer, 20525 Mariani Ave., Cupertino, CA 
95014. NCP (Mar 86) 

MlcroPlanner is a heavy-duty project planner. Excellent, but slow, 
*m at the mechanics of project planning. Reports are its 
weakness. Speed is much improved when a hard disk is 
used. $395, MicroPlanning Software USA, 235 Montgomery 
St. f San Francisco. CA 94104. CP (Mar 86) 

Mlndsight is a professional level decision support and business 
**« planning package. Can work with IFPS on mainframes, and is 
able to transmit models in both directions. Powerful and 
easy to use. Requires 512K+. $195, Execucom Systems. PO 
Box 9758, Austin, TX 78766. CP 
od a/C on sultan t is a program that lets users organize ideas and 
*** helps in thinking through and solving problems. Easy to use 
thanks to extensive use of icons and on-screen help. This 
program introduces some low-level Al (artificial intelligence) 
concepts. $200. Organization Development Software. 1011 
E. Touhy Ave., Des Plaines. IL 60018, CP (Apr 86) 
ThlnkTank 128 is a basic outline processor. The interface is not 
•** the standard Mac interface, but is simple to use and 
efficient. Printer support is limited* but files can be printed 
in a draft-style mode. Only for 128K owners; 512K+ owners 
should get ThinkTank 512* $99,95, Living Videotext, 2432 
Charleston Rd., Mountain View* CA 94043. CP 
ThlnkTank 512 is a very fast and intuitive organizational tool that 
*•** can handle word processing chores in the midst of structur¬ 
ing a plan or outline. Full keyboard control is possible. Can 
store and paste graphics into outlines. Slide show features 
allows high presentations to be created. Good report format¬ 
ting and printing capability. $195. Living Videotext* 2432 
Charleston Rd., Mountain View, CA 94043, CP (Jan 86) 


DESK MANAGERS 

Battery Pak is a set of 8 handy desk accessories Including 
***** scientific and RPN calculators, a background text file printer 
and a 250-page note pad with search and phone dialing 
capabilities. Comes with an installer and the best manual 
weVe seen in a long time, $49.95. Batteries Included* 30 
Mural St. f Richmond Hill* Ontario. L4B 1B5, Canada. NCP 
(Dec 85) 

The Desk Organizer is a free-form desk management system 
**** based on card index style files. Has many features including 
alarms, report generation and calculation. The Meta feature 
lets the program run along with another application. $99, 
Conceptual Instruments* 269 W. Walnut St., Philadelphia. 
PA 19144. NCP 


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Front Desk lets small businesses and offices easily keep track of 
personnel schedules, activities and payments. The program 
can keep track of up to 15 employees, functioning as a day-, 
week- and month-at-a-glance calendar. $149,95. Layered, 
85 Merrimac St,, Boston. MA 02114. CP (Dec 85} 
MacQfflx combines many of the simple and necessary office 
***» functions in one easy-to-use package, Features include 
simple word processing, forms design, form letter produce 
lion, report generation and filing. Good design nearly makes 
the manual unnecessary. $79, Emerging Technology, Inc,* 
4760 Walnut St. Boulder, CO 80301. CP 
My Office lets you handle your files and papers in much the same 
**** way you did before you got a computer. Excellent use of 
graphic symbols makes this program the easiest to use of its 
type. $129.95. DataPak, 14011 Ventura Blvd,* Sherman 
Oaks, CA 91423. CP (Prem) 

Quickset is a set of desk management and organizational tools 
h* that can be used as desk accessories or applications. 
Modular design allows users to add only selected items to 
System disks. Functions include note filer, card filer, calen¬ 
dar, phone dialer, financial and statistical calculators and a 
file encryptor. $49,95. EnterSet, 410 Townsend St., San 
Francisco* CA 94107, NCP (Dec 85) 

Sidekick is a set of desk organization applications and accesso- 
***■ ries. Functions include phone dialer and logger, desk 
accessory terminal, calculator, clock, editor and more. 
When required resource fifes are included modules take up a 
lot of disk space, and are best used with a hard disk* 
$84.95* Borland international, 4585 Scotts Valley Dr,, 
Scotts Valley* CA 95066. NCP (Dec 85) 

Top Desk is a set of 7 self-installing (and self-removing) DAs, 
•*#* Menu Key adds Command key sequences to programs. 
Views allows looking at and moving data between up to 8 
MacWnte documents, BackPrint allows background printing 
from most applications. Shorthand adds a glossary. Blank is 
a screen saver. Encrypts scrambles files for protection, and 
Launch transfers to another application. $59,95. Cortland 
Computer, PO Box 9916. Berkeley, CA 94709. CP (May 86) 


UTILITIES 

Accessary Pak 1 is a set of useful applications and utilities. Paint 
***** Coffer alone is worth the price. That program allows users to 
browse and manipulate full page MacPaint documents, 
$39.95, Silicon Beach, 11212 Dalby PL, San Diego. CA 
92126. NCP (Nov 85) 

Copy II Mac was one of the first back-up programs available for the 
***** Mac. Does efficient sector and bit copies and in its latest 
version can back up virtually all Mac software. Features 
graphic displays of copy progress. Comes with MacTools, a 
multiuse utility that can recover many damaged files. 
$39.95,Central Point Software. 9700 S.W. Capitol Highway, 
Portland* OR 97219, NCP (Apr 86) 

Disk Ranger is a speedy cataloguing program that doubles as an 
***• efficient labelmaker. Comes with pinfeed labels. Works with 
regular and bard disks. Can catalog HFS systems. $49,95, 
Mainstay, 2S611B Canwood St., Agoura Hills. CA 91301. 
NCP (Mar 86) 

Dubl-CHck Calculator Construction Set Eets users design per- 
***** sonailzed calculators with a variety of standard and special 
functions. Multiple functions can be attached to a single 
key. Finished calculators can be saved as installable desk 
accessories or hs clickable applications. $99. Dubl-Click 
Software. 18201 Gresham St.. Northridge, CA 91321. NCP 
(Apr 86) 

Fedlt is the best disk editor available for the Mac* The program 
***** also includes extremely powerful disk and file repair and 
recovery facilities. All Mac owners should have this tool on 
hand for emergencies, $40. MacMaster Software, 939 E, El 
Gamine Real. # 122, Sunnyvale, CA 94087. NCP 
Hard Dlak Util uses patch files to allow users to mount and run 
**•* specified programs on their hard disks. The list of patches is 


constantly expanding. $89,95. FWB Software, 2040 Polk 
St.* San Francisco, CA, NCR 

Mac Booster is a disk-cache program that adds a great deal of 
***# operating speed to a 512K Mac. it installs easily from its 
master disk. Can increase the speed of your 512K Mac by 2 
to 3 times. Not for Mac Plus, $50. Mainstay, 2861 IB 
Canwood St,. Agoura Hills, CA 91301. NCP 
Mac Disk Catalog II is a utility that will quickly organize a 
**** moderate size disk library. Easy to use with powerful 
reporting and label-making features. $39.95, New Canaan 
Microcode, 136 Beech Rd., New Canaan, CT 06840. NCP 
(Dec 85) 

MacLabeler lets users instantly index and print labels for all the 
hh disks in a burgeoning collection. Choose border type and 
orientation of your label; index by folder or document. 
Starter set of labels is included $49,95, Ideaform, PO Box 
1540, Fairfield. IA 52556. CP (Prem) 

M a clink lets users transfer data between Macs and PCs. Simple 
•** to install and run, high-performance software. Can do 
special format transfers such as 1-2-3 to Mult/plan and 
WordStar or MuitiMate to MacWrite , Contains both Mac and 
PC disks, interface cable is optional. Has Mac and MS-DOS 
disks. $125, $155 with 8-ft interface cable. DataViz, 16 
Winfield St,, Norwalk, CT 06855. NCP 
MacMatel combines RAMdisk and print spooling functions in a 
**•# compact package, Both parts are efficient, work well and 
have on-screen help. $49.95. SMB Development Asso¬ 
ciates. PO Box 3082, Chatsworth, CA 91311. NCP 
Mac Memory Disk creates a RAMdisk on 512K Macs, The 
*#* RAMdisk 1 s size is user selected up to 316K. Has auto startup 
and auto file transfer features. Simple to use, on-screen 
dialogs prompt for ail actions, $29, Assimilation, 485 
Alberto Way, Los Gatos, CA 95030. NCP 
MacNosy is a global disassembler. A very advanced user can use 
***** this program to look into the code of virtually any program. 
This advanced tool can take you places no other Mac 
program could dream of going IF you have the skill to guide 
it The documentation is sparse. For pros only, $85. Jasik 
Designs, 343 Trenton Way, Menfo Park, CA 94025. NCP 
The Macintosh Reference System consists of the contents of 
**** inside Macintosh arranged into a simple database on a disk 
and a deck of 750 color coded cards that contain the same 
information. Very useful for programmers and developers, 
$109.95. TOM Programs, 1500 Massachusetts Ave. NW, 
Washington. DC 20005. NCP (Mar 86) 

MacQwerty is a set of three keyboard utility programs* Reconfi - 
•**• gure allows users to assign any character to any key. 
Standard sets up a normal qwerty keyboard and Dvorak 
changes the key arrangement to the very efficient Dvorak 
layout. $35. Paragon Courseware. 4954 Sun Valley Rd., Del 
Mar, CA 92014, NCP (Jul 86) 

MacS»rvo converts a Mac and a hard disk into a disk and print 
***** server. Uses the AppleTalk network and is easily hooked up. 
Users can partition the hard disk into multiple volumes 
(read-only for common access' and read-write for private 
access), Huns in the background, so users can work on all 
machines in the network. Comes with a backup and restore 
utility. $250. Requires 512+ or Mac XL. Infosphere, 4730 
SW Macadam, Portland. OR 97201. CP 
Mac Zap is a three-part disk and memory utility. It can be used to 
**•* recover some damaged files and disks, compare disks* 
analyze disk structure and make back-up copies of most 
disks, $60. Micro Analyst, 5802B Gloucester, Austin, TX 
78723. NCP (Jan 86) 

’Ncryptor is a simple* safe program that lets users password their 
**** files. The same program is used for encoding and decoding. 
This is the best product in its category. $39,95, Mainstay, 
28611B Canwood St., Agoura Hills, CA 91301* NCR 
Packer is a simple utility that compresses files. It can be used to 
**#* save disk space and also protect files*Typical space savings 
range from 20 to 50% depending on the original file type 
and size. This is the best program of its type so far, $29. 


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Bobbing Software, 67 Country Oaks Dr., Buda. TX 78610. 
NCP (Jul 86) 

PC tQ MAC and BACK has both Mac and MS-DOS disks, This 
»• program easily and efficiently transfers text and other data 
between PCs and Macs. Fortunately, the documentation is 
excellent. Does special format transfers such as WordStar to 
MacWrrte. Includes a cable for direct Mac to PC connections, 
$149.95. dillthlum Press, 8285 SW Nimbus, Beaverton, OR 
97005. NCP 

Quick & Dirty Utilities, Volume One is a disk chock full of the 
***** handiest programs you have ever bought. Included are a 
super disk cataloguer, a desk accessory mover and more. 
Several desk accessories including a menu bar clock and a 
terminal are on the disk, "File info" and "Q&D Filer" are two 
file management desk accessories that you'll wonder how 
you got along without, $39,95, Dreams of the Phoenix, PO 
Box 10273, Jacksonville, FL 32247. NCP (Nov 85) 
Switcher is Andy Hertzfeld's contribution to Mac productivity. This 
***** program lets users run several programs at once (up to 8 on 
a 1-megabyte or larger machine). Switching between the 
programs is near instantaneous. Slick and easy to use; every 
512K Mac user should get it. Requires 512K+. $19.95 from 
Apple, free from MAUG on CompuServe, from Delphi and 
included with some third-party applications. Apple 
Computer. 20525 Mariani Ave. t Cupertino, CA 95014. NCR 
Turbocharger is a disk-cache program. Can dramatically speed up 
***** operation (250 to 500% improvements are common). Fea¬ 
tures include auto-startup and write buffering. Only works on 
a 512K Mac but is a must for one. $95. Nevins Microsys¬ 
tems. 210 Fifth Ave,. New York. NY 10010. NCP 
TurboDiiwnfoafl is a desk accessory designed specifically to 
***** increase the speed of Xmodem data transfers from national 
databases to your Mac. Speed increases range upward from 
50% to over 300% at 2400 baud. $39,95. Mainstay, 
28611B Canwood St., Agoura Hills, CA 91301. NCP 


Twelve-C Financial Desk Accessory brings all the power and 
*•** functionality of a Hewlett-Packard 12C programmable calcu¬ 
lator to your desktop. Can be programmed and ail registers 
can be viewed while calculator is running. $39.95. Dreams 
of the Phoenix. PO Box 10273, Jacksonville, FL 32247. NCP 
TypeNaw is a desk accessory that allows the Mac and imageWriter 
*•** to function as an electronic typewriter. Type can be placed 
into blanks in complex forms easily. Typing can be recorded 
and played back or "boilerplate" stored and used as needed. 
$39,95, Mainstay, 28611B Canwood St., Agoura Hills, CA 
91301. NCP (Jan 86} 

XUServe converts a Mac XL into a disk and print server. Uses the 
*•** AppleTalk network and is easily hooked up. Users can 
partition the Mac XL's hard disk into multiple volumes (read¬ 
only for common access and read-write for private access). 
Runs in the background on the Mac XL, so users can work on 
all machines in the network. Comes with a backup and 
restore utility. $195. Info sphere, 4730 SW Macadam. Port¬ 
land, OR 97201. NCP (Nov 85) 


LANGUAGES 

Aztec C is a C language program system that will appeal to users 
**** with a UNIX background. It uses many UNIX conventions and 
in the more expensive versions comes with standard UNIX 
utilities, including the VI editor. Good, solid system, $199 
basic system, can’t produce standalone applications; $299 
development system, can produce standalone applications; 
$499 commercial system, development system plus utilities 
and strong technical support by publisher, Manx Software 
Systems, PO Box 55. Shrewsbury, NJ 07701, NCP (May 86) 
Hlppo-C Level 1 offers a good basic learning environment for 
«* newcomers to the C programming language. The programs 
limits and restrictions are severe and standalone applica¬ 
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MagAsm is a software development system that allows programs 
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assemble, edit and test software, and an integrated re¬ 
source compiler lets independent applications run from their 
own icons. $125, Mainstay. 28611B Canwood St. P Agoura 
Hills. CA 91301, NCP 

Mac C is a good, highly Mac-oriented implementation of this 
***» popular development language. Assembler and linker built- 
in, $375, $475 with Toolkit and floating point package. 
Consutair. 140 Campo Dr,. Portola Valley, CA 94025. NCP 
Mac Express is a development environment or shell. Programmers 
*** use it to save time and effort when developing standalone 
applications for the Mac. Easy to use for those with a strong 
technical background, $50 test drive package, $495, AL- 
Soft. Inc,, PO Box 927, Spring, TX 77383. NCP (Feb 86) 
MacForth is an implementation of the popular Forth programming 
m* language. Level 1 is a simple, introductory version with 
limited support of the Mac Toolbox. Excellent tutorial and 
references sections in the manual. Level 2 supports the Mac 
Toolbox fully. Level 3 extends the language so that profes¬ 
sionals can produce standalone applications. All levels are 
supported by the publisher via telephone and electronic 
BBSs (the publisher even has a private SIG on CompuServe). 
$149 (Level 1). $249 (Level 2). $499 (Level 3). Creative 
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Maehl is a multitasking implementation of Forth that allows local 
**** variables and text files. Can create standalone applications. 
Several windows can be up with different operations in each, 
operating concurrently. Execution is fast. $49.95. Requires 
512K. Palo Alto Shipping, PO Box 7430. Menlo Park. CA 
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excellent editor (Edit), an efficient assembler, a linker, an 
executive, a resource compiler called RMaker The files 
included in this two-disk set have alt the basic equates, 
process definitions, and trap calls. $195. Apple Computer, 
20525 Mariani Ave.. Cupertino, CA 95014. NCP 
Macintosh Pascal is Apple Computers version of this very popular 
programming language. Loaded as it is with innovative 
teaching features, this interpreter is an excellent introduc¬ 
tion to Pascal. The documents are mostly references, get a 
good tutorial textbook, $125, Apple Computer, 20525 
Mariani Ave., Cupertino, CA 95014. CP 
MacScheme is a LISP dialect with '"artificial intelligence 1 ' capabili- 
»• ties. Has a large appetite for RAM. Interpreted language with 
Toolbox access limited to a small part of QuickDraw. 
Includes many examples and a LISP tutorial. $125, Seman¬ 
tic Microsystems, 4470 S,W Hall St., Beaverton, OR 97005. 
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MngamaK C is an easy to use. full version of C. Has a compiler, 
**•* linker, disassembler, editor and much more. Good for 
beginners. Excellent documentation, $299,95, Megamax, 
PO Box 851521. Richardson, TX 75085. CP 
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NE 36th Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399. NCP 
Microsoft Logo, from Microsoft’s MacLibrary, written by LCSI. An 
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the Mac s user interface. Uses three windows. Turtle looks 
like a turtle, and its screen actions are very precise, 
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QUED {Quality Editor for Developers} is the ultimate source 
mm code editor. Loaded with useful and well thought out 
features, it will make any programmer's life much easier. It 
is not a word processor, however. $65. Paragon Courseware, 
4954 Sun Valley Rd., Del Mar, CA 92014 NCR (Mar 86} 
TML (MacLanguage Series) Pascal is a good Pascal compiler, 
mm* capable of producing standalone programs. Can use most 
existing Lisa Pascal programs with only slight modification. 
Requires 512K. $99,95. TML Systems, PO Box 361626, 
Melbourne, FL 32936. NCP (Jun 86) 


EDUCATION 

ft Bill Becomes A Law is a multiple-choice, role-playing adventure 
*** in which students try to pass a bill requiring apples in every 
federally sponsored school lunch, A good insight into 
political maneuverings on Capitol Hill for students, $59.95. 
Queue, 5 Chapel Hill Dr.. Fairfield, CT 06432. CP (Mar 86) 
Astronomy is a low-level package with basic features. Slow speed 
»• and sparseness of information makes this program of 
limited use to novices, but still useful to experienced 
astronomers. $35. E & M Software Co., 95 Richardson Rd., 
N. Chefsmaford, MA 01863. NCP (Apr 86) 

ChlpWlts is a combination game and teaching tool. Players create 
*■*•* programs to maneuver robots through a set of 8 mazes. The 
programs are written in Ch/pWlt's built-in icon-based pro¬ 
gramming language (IBOL) . IBOL is a nearly perfect Introduc¬ 
tion to programming for nonprogrammers. $49.95. Brain- 
Power, 24009 Ventura Blvd., Calabasas, CA 91302. NCP 
DlotMac is a database consisting of about 800 foods with 
«*• nutritional information, from which to choose from for 
planning daily menus. The Modify Food Data option allows 
users to customize and update data. Some on-screen help. 
$79, Tess Data Systems. Inc., 17070 Red Oak Dr,. Houston, 
TX 77090. CP (May 86) 

MacChemlstry is a two-disk set consisting of a titration program 
m* (predetermined compounds, not user modifiable), a periodic 
table program, MacNesf (a scrapbook with indexing), and a 
disk of MacPaint files depicting everything from 3ab equip¬ 
ment to molecular structures of many solutions and com¬ 
pounds, Mac/Vest is of general appeal. S145. Fortnum, 31 
W. Sierra Madre Blvd,. Sierra Madre, CA 91024, NCP 
MacEdge and MacEdge II each contain 8 reading or math drill 
••• programs for basic skills. Programs follow one of three 
formats, a bit contrived. Contrivances are design flaws — 
they require learning format as well as skill. Exception is 
Alphabet Train, a clever game with great graphics and 
sound, poor font definition, $49,95 each. Think Educational 
Software, 16 Market St,. Potsdam, NY 13676, CP 
MacStronomy is a good package for novice sky watchers. Has 
**• expandable database of sky objects that can be customized 
by the user. New version is very fast, $75, Etlon Software, 
PO Box 649, Lafayette, Co 80026. CP (Apr 86} 

MacType offers structured typing instruction. Can teach both 
m« standard and Dvorak keyboards. Features include certifi¬ 
cates for reaching certain levels. Can be used in a multistu¬ 
dent environment. $49,95. Palantir Software, 12777 Jones 
Rd., Houston. TX 77070. CP 

Masterlype is proof that learning to type can be fun. In this 
«* arcade-style action game words descend from four corners 
towards the center ship: the user must type them correctly. 
Features 18 skill levels, tracks errors, recommends lessons 
and provides comparison scores. $49,95. Scarborough 
Systems, 55 South Broadway, Tarrytown. NY 10591. CP 
NotePro is an educational package that teaches users to organize 
*«» and make best use of their notes. Consists of five well 
designed parts, which can be used individually or as a whole, 
$59 95. Learning Skills. PO Box 8038. Reno, NV 89507. 
NCP (Jul 86) 

Nutrl-Calc uses a large database of nutritional information. Users 
«* can plan healthy diets and print shopping and menu fists. 
$79.95. CAMDE, 46 Prince St.. Rochester, NY 14607. CP 








PowerMath is an equation sotver. Handles problems ranging from 
*•*• the simplest to the extremely complicated. Step-by-step 
solutions make this a powerful teaching tool. Results can be 
displayed numerically or graphically. Slow, but potent pro¬ 
gram. $99.95. Brainpower, 24009 Ventura Blvd., Calaba¬ 
sas, CA 91302. NCP 

Score Improvement System for the SAT is a no-nonsense drill 
mm and practice session covering practice tests, vocabulary, 
reading comprehension, math and quantitative compari¬ 
sons, On-line tutoring for wrong answers. $99.95. Hayden, 
600 Suffolk St., Lowell, MA 01854. CP (May 86) 

Speed Reader II builds skills sequentially to develop faster, more 
»* efficient reading and improve retention. Scores kept, and 
can be graphed. High school level selections Included, other 
levels available on data disks, $69.95, Davidson & Asso¬ 
ciates, 3135 Kashiwa St., Torrance, CA 90505, CP? (Apr 86) 
Tellstar I & II are the best Mac astronomy programs. Has 
extensive database, quick sky plotting and can locate 
specific celestial objects. Level tl has southern hemisphere 
star table. Messier objects. $49.95 (level I). $79.95 
(level II). Spectrum HoloByte, 1050 Walnut, Boulder, CO 
80302. NCP {Apr 86) 

Turbo Turtle is a turtle graphics program primarily designed as a 
mm learning tool for children. Uses Logo commands for graph¬ 
ics, but is not a full Logo implementation. Simple to use, 
good introduction to Logo for young children, $59.95. 
Hayden, 600 Suffolk St, Lowell. MA 01854, CP 


ENTERTAINMENT 

A Mind Forever Voyaging is a departure in text adventure games. 
*m* It has a more extensive vocabulary and a more involved story 
than most of the genre. The story here is gripping, but there 
are only puzzles to solve. Still this is a trip in the imagination 
well worth taking. Requires 512K+. $44,95. Infocom, 125 
CambridgePark Dr,, Cambridge, MA 02140. CP (Apr 86) 
Airborne is classic arcade-style game with "real ' sound effects. 
m« The player defends against an assault from flying enemies. 
Game noises digitized from actual recordings add to the 
game. $34.95. Silicon Beach, 11212 Dafby PI., San Diego, 
CA 92126. CP 

Alter Ego simulates the entire lifetime of a fictional character. The 
m* player's reaction to each multiple-choice event shapes the 
characters future relationships, job, health, etc. Spectacu¬ 
larly impressive the first lime you play: after that there are 
too many similarities to previous characters. Female edition 
should be available soon, $59,95, Activision. PO Box 7287, 
Mountain View, CA 94039, CP 

Amazon is an illustrated adventure authored by Michael Crichton. 
«* Unravel the fate of a doomed expedition with the help of 
Paco the talking parrot. Three difficulty levels, good sen¬ 
tence parser. $49.95. Telarium, 1 Kendall Sq., Cambridge, 
MA 02139. CP (Feb 86) 

The Ancient Art of War gives users a chance to refight some 
***** famous campaigns on both strategic and tactical levels. 
Campaigns can also be designed from scratch. Very play¬ 
able, addicting game. Requires 512K+ Mac. $49 95. 
BfOderbund, 17 Paul Dr,, San Diego, CA 94903. CP (Apr 86} 
Balance of Power is the world's first computer peace game. This 
mm. simulation allows players to become either the President of 
the United States or General Secretary of the Soviet Union, 
Extraordinary artificial intelligence routines and general play 
make this a classic, $54,95. Mindscape, 3444 Dundee Rd., 
Northbrook, IL 60022. CP (Prem) 

Baron is the world of real estate, in a financial simulation. Buy and 
***** option properties in five key areas: invest in industrial, 
residential, or land property; or put cash aside in high- 
interest accounts. $59,95. Blue Chip, 6740 Eton Ave., 
Canoga Park, CA 91303, CP 

Borrowed Timo casts players as detectives who have to solve their 
mw own murder — before it happens. This game requires players 
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sentence parser, sketchy Mac interface, $44.95. Activision, 
PO Box 7287, Mountain View, CA 94039. CP (May 86) 
Brataeca* is the Mac s first true action adventure in which players 
**• use the mouse or keyboard to control Kyne, the heroic 
fugitive scientist, as he moves around a planet outpost in 
search of clues and information. Terrible, confusing instruc¬ 
tion manual mars game. Excellent graphics, unusual 
sentence parser. $44.95. Mindscape. 3444 Dundee Rd., 
Northbrook, IL 60062. CP 

Brimstone is a full-text adventure that follows the exploits of Sir 
**#* Gawain as he journeys down to the pits of Hell and back 
again. A good example of an interactive novel, although the 
third-person narrative can be disconcerting. $39 95. Broder- 
bund, 17 Paul Dr., San Rafael, CA 94903. CP (Jul 86) 
Champlonslilp Boxing allows statistical replay involving famous 
**#* boxers. Players can modify existing boxers and can create 
their own fighters. Good sound and graphics. Sierra, PO Box 
485. Coarsegold, CA 93614, CP (Mar 86) 

Cutthroats casts players in this full-text adventure as a deep-sea 
** diver, hired by a band of toughs to locate shipwreck 
treasure. The game is very closed-ended. requiring almost 
Pavlovian obedience. Multiple endings, $39.95. Infocom, 
125 CambridgePark Dr., Cambridge, MA 02140. CP 
Cyborg Is a text adventure game with an interesting twist. Robot 
*** brain is implanted in concert with yours. It scans, evaluates, 
and reports, then carries out actions. Word and sentence 
understanding is very good. Absorbing game for adventur¬ 
ers. $39,95. Broderbund, 17 Paul Dr., San Rafael, CA 
94903. CP 

Deadline is a text adventure in which the player is a detective 
*** called in to investigate what seems like a simple drug 
overdose. The family lawyer thinks it was really a murder. 
You have 12 game hours to find the kilter! $49.95. Infocom, 
125 CambridgePark Dr,, Cambridge, MA 02140. CP 
DeJaVu is an unusually good version of the old card game 
"Concentration ” Great graphics and sound, one- or two- 
player modes. Improves concentration painlessly. $39.95, 
Rubicon, 6300 La Calma Dr., Austin, TX 78752. CP (Mar 86) 
Deja Vu A: Nightmare Comes True is a graphic adventure that 
***** breaks new ground. Innovative use of the Mac interface in 
truly playable and exciting game, A great introduction to 
graphic adventure games. $49.95. Mindscape, 3444 Dun¬ 
dee Rd.. Northbrook, IL 60062, CP (Jan 86) 

Dinner at Eight is a useful recipe filing system that includes a 
*«* collection of recipes from a nationwide sampling of restau¬ 
rants. Users enter number of diners and program scales 
recipes accordingly. $59,95. Rubicon, 6300 La Calma Dr., 
Austin, TX 78752, CP (Jan 86) 

Dragonwerld is an illustrated adventure In which the player 
**• attempts to save The Last Dragon from the Duke of Dark¬ 
ness, Several on-screen illustrations at once. Outstanding 
documentation lists all words recognized by the program's 
sentence parser, $49.95. Telarium, 1 Kendall Sq., Cam¬ 
bridge. MA 02139, CP 

Enchanted Scepters is a surround sound graphic adventure 
*•*• game it has a limited vocabulary and virtually no story. 
Offers extensive and varied scenes and utilizes the Mac 
Interface to the fullest. A worthwhile adventure experience, 
$39,95, Silicon Beach Software, PO Box 261430, San 
Diego. CA 92126. CP (May 86) 

Flight Simulator puts you at the controls of a small plane (prop or 
*•*• jet) and lets you roam North America. As difficult as real 
flying. Mac version has features not found on earlier 
versions, including spotter aircraft. Not all features avail¬ 
able on 128K, $49.95. Microsoft, 16011 NE 36th Way, 
Redmond, WA 98052, CP 

Fokker TrJplane is about as near to flying as you can get seated in 
front of a computer. Very realistic simulation and excellent 
graphics. Well designed and implemented. $59,95. PB1 
Software, 1155B-H Chess Dr,, Foster City, CA 94404. CP 
(Feb 86} 

Gateway comes with 3 full-color prints. You inherit a boring old 
*** building from a supposedly rich uncle, eventually learning 


that the building is a ■gateway*' to a lost civilization. 
$49.95. Pryority. 635 Sanborn Rd., Salinas, CA 93901, CP 
(Prem) 

Gak> puts piayers in command of an American submarine in World 
***** War II, This superb simulation game uses all of the Mac's 
graphic capabilities to really make you feel that "you are 
there." $39,95. Spectrum Hoiobyte, 1050 Walnut St., Boul¬ 
der, CO 80302 CP (Nov 85) 

Grid Wars is a three dimensional arcade-style game. Good play- 
*•* ability, for those that enjoy shoot-em-ups. Bizarre graphics, 
$39,95. Ann Arbor Softworks, fnc. r 308 Vi S. State Street, 
Ann Arbor, Ml 48104, CP (Apr 86) 

Gypsy is a computerized, customizable Ouija board. More than just 
**** a software package, users get a pasteboard playing surface 
and a Mouse Mover with 99 ball bearings. $39.95. Magnum. 
21115 Devonshire St.. Chatsworth. CA 91311. CP (Prem) 
Harrier Strike Mission pits you against a well defended island. 
You fly an advanced Harrier jumpjet from a carrier offshore. 
Fair graphics and reasonable flight simulation prove that 
color Isn't necessary in a flight simulator. $49.95. Miles 
Computing, 21018 Osborne St., Bldg. 5, Canoga Park, CA 
91304. CP {Feb 86) 

Hippo Computer Almanac is a collection of interesting facts that 
users access using a question and answer format. This is a 
game or toy, not a real almanac. $34.95 Hippopotamus, 
985 University Ave,, Los Gatos, CA 95030. CP (Jan 86) 
Legacy is a two-part text/graphic adventure, A magical orb in Drab 
«*» Castle must be found through the use of spells and careful 
adventuring. Well-constructed game. $45. Challenger Soft¬ 
ware. 18350 Kedzie Ave.. Homewood, IL 60430, CP 
Lode Runner is a 150-screen action-strategy challenge that 
•■*• requires a joystick for truly effective play. Move around a 
grid of ladders and platforms collecting treasure; dig a hole 
to trap pursuers. Build your own challenges $39,95, Broder¬ 
bund, 17 Paul Dr.* San Rafael, CA 94903. CP 
The Ltiicher Profile is a psychological profile generator that 
*** bases its conclusions on users' responses to seven different 
color tests (color charts are enclosed in the package). Select 
your favorite colors, shades and shapes and the program 
displays or prints a two- or three-page personality profile. 
$39.95. Mindscape. 3444 Dundee Rd,* Northbrook, IL 
60062, CP 

MaoAttack puts the player in command of a super tank defending 
•** the wastes of Alaska against invaders. This 3D simulation 
pits you against attacking tanks and warplanes that fire 
heat-seeking missiles. Defeating the horde brings a graphic 
fireworks display. $49. Miies Computing, 21018 Osborne 
Street, Canoga Park, CA 91304. CP 
MacChallaiigar lets players land a space shuttle. The graphics of 
m this flight simulator are crude and it's a hard machine to fly, 
but it's also a lot of fun. Version 2.0 lets you record your 
landing attempt (that’s what most of them are!) and then 
review it from any of ten camera angles, a truly unique 
touch! $49,95. Aegis Development. 2210 Wi I shire Blvd,, 
Santa Monica. CA 90403, CP (Feb 86) 

Maelnooga ChooChoo is a set of electronic toy trains. Run on the 
*•** layouts provided, or create your own. as complex as you 
wish. Create scenery using built-in tools or import fancier 
MacPaint scenery. $39. Fortnum, 31W, Sierra Madre Blvd,* 
sierra Madre, CA 91024, NCR {Apr 86) 

MacJack II is a blackjack game pitting users against the house. 
**** Includes good graphics, insurance, splitting and doubling, 
and table limit that rises with your stake. Plays very well, and 
can be quite addictive, $39,95, DataPak. 14011 Ventura 
Blvd., Sherman Oaks. CA 91423. CP 
MacVtigaa contains seven complete casino-style games: bacca- 
**■ rat, blackjack, craps, keno, poker, roulette and slots. All are 
fairly standard, but generally well designed. House rules can 
be selected from a menu, The games are all fun to play* but 
not particularly absorbing. $59, Videx, 1105 Northeast 
Circle Blvd,. Corvallis, OR 97330, CP 
Mac Wars is a Mac version of the popular "Star Wars" arcade 
*• game. Three-dimensional graphics are sluggish at times. 


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digitized sound is somewhat less than terrific, and playabili¬ 
ty is limited. Doesn't work on Mac Pius. Spend your quarters 
on the arcade version, $49,95, Miles Computing, 21018 
Osborne St. Canoga Park. CA 91304. CP 
Make Millions is a fascinating business simulation in which the 
***** player competes against the computer to take control of five 
companies, then run them profitably. Different strategic 
options and human-seeming associates make simulation 
more complete. Appeals to the closet capitalist in all of us. 
$49.95. Scarborough Systems. 55 South Broadway, Tarry- 
town. NY 10591. CP 

Millionaire is a financial simulation based on the stock market. 
*#** "News" affects stock prices, so read it religiously. Turn a 
pittance into a fortune to win the game. $49.95. Blue Chip. 
6740 Eton Ave,Canoga Park, CA 91303. CP 
Mind Over Mac features five games. Entertainment for the whole 
**** family. Good graphics paired with synthesized sound and on¬ 
screen help. $49,95. Think Educational Software, 16 Market 
St.. Potsdam. NY 13676. CP (Feb 86) 

Mind Prober is a demonstration of a very simple expert-style 
*• system. How well do you know your friends? Answer certain 
statements as either true or false, and the computer prints a 
3- to 5-page psychological profile of subject in business, 
stress, sex and other situations, $50, Human Edge Soft¬ 
ware. 2445 Faber PI.. Palo Alto, CA 94303. CP 
The Mist is an ail-text "interactive never based on a short story by 
*** Stephen King. Vivid graphic and sometimes gory descrip¬ 
tions compensate for the game's muddled sentence parser. 
The story is involving, while the game is overly lock-step, 
$39.95, Mindscape, 3444 Dundee Rd. f Northbrook, II 
60062. CP (May 86) 

NawGammon is animated backgammon that will challenge even 
***• good players. Features include variable skill levels and 
strategies and options to play the Mac or watch the Mac play 
itself. Many positions are included so that you can learn how 
to play them without having to set up a whole game. An 
arcade-like high speed play mode is also included. $39,95, 
Newsoft. PO Box 4035. Newport Beach, CA 92661, CP 
Orbltor puts a real space shuttle on the Mac screen, A multitude of 
***** controls, intelligent on-board computer with speech capabil¬ 
ities, real-time graphics and 16 distinct missions help this 
program succeed as both a game and a simulation. Recom¬ 
mended. $49.95. Spectrum HoloByte, fnc,, 1050 Walnut 
Street, Suite 325, Boulder, CO 80302. NCR (Jut 86) 
Perplexx is a board word game based on Sc rabble. Players can 
*•** vary the rules and board to suit their tastes and skills. Up to 
four can play and the game can either be an active player or 
a scorer and arbiter. Has a 90,000+ word dictionary. 
$39.95. Hayden, 600 Suffolk St,, Lowell. MA 01854. CP 
Pinball Construction Sot lets users create their own pinball 
***9 games, as elaborate or as easy as desired. Uses MacPaint 
for backgrounds and has lifelike sounds (on 512K+ Macs). 
No documentation to speak of, $40. Electronic Arts, 2755 
Campus Dr., San Mateo, CA 94403. CP (Jan 86) 
Planetfall leaves users shipwrecked on a seemingly deserted 
*• planet, with only Floyd the Droid to help f igure out how to get 
home Two possible endings. This full-text game is written in 
a tongue-in-cheek style, $39,95, Infocom, 125 Cambridge- 
Park Dr., Cambridge, MA 02140, CP 
Psion Chess is as good a micro chess player as you'll find. This 
***** 1984 World Micro Champion makes superb use of graphics 
and the Mac interface. Switch between 6 languages for a 
touch of spice. $59.95. Psion, 40 lindeman Dr., Trumbull, 
CT 06611, CP (Mar 86) 

Real Pokei is five-card draw against five other players with Old 
***** West names, distinct personalities and playing styles, in a 
saloon setting. Dealing and play are very fast. Game 
evaluates your hand, suggests cards to keep/discard. Dy¬ 
namic. exciting, addictive game, $39.95. Henderson Asso¬ 
ciates. 980 Henderson Ave., Sunnyvale, CA 94086. CP 
Rogue Is a strategy dungeon adventure in which each quest is 
**** completely different. Randomly generated rooms, monsters 




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and treasures keep even veterans on their toes, $39, Epyx, 
1043 Kiel CL, Sunnyvale. CA 94089, CP (Feb 86) 
Sargon III is a capable chess program with 9 levels of play, 
«*• problem-solving modes, take back, change color hint, 
manual piay, etc. Easy Piay option blocks Sargon from 
stealing search time during player's move, effectively dou¬ 
bling number of levels. Pieces are moved graphically. Disk 
stores 107 classic games for review and replay, $49.95. 
Hayden, 600 Suffolk St., Lowell, MA 01854. CP (Mar 86) 
Strategic Conquest is large scale, strategic conflict on the Mac. 
**** This very involved war game wi 11 be enjoyed by those who like 
this genre. $49.95. PBI Software, 1155B-H Chess Dr., 
Foster City. CA 94404. CP (Dec 85) 

Suspended is Infocom's most unique text game. Using a small 
**** plastic board and six markers, the player keeps track of six 
uniquely designed robots which check on damage to a 
complex's machinery and report back what they perceive as 
the problem. $49.95. Infocom. 125 CambridgePark Dr., 
Cambridge. MA 02140. CP 

Tycoon is a financial simulation based on the ups and downs of 
**** commodities market. Build a fortune in pork bellies and 
Swiss francs, checking the "Financial Journal" for news 
affecting the market. $59.95. Blue Chip. 6740 Eton Ave.. 
Canoga Park, CA 91303, CP 

Ultima ll players take the part of a character who travels through 
•**• land, sea. air, space and even time itself in a quest to find 
and defeat the evil sorceress Minax. Good Mac interface; 
excellent game; confusing graphics. $59.95. Sierra, PO Box 
485, Coarsegold, CA 93614. CP 
Ultima III allows up to four characters to cooperate to explore the 
**•*■ vast wilderness of Sosaria; dungeons, oceans, and the 
Moon Gates to help solve the adventure. $59.95, Origin 
Systems, 340 Harvey Rd., Manchester, NH 03103. CP 
Webster's Revenge is a Bogg/e-like word search game Super 
**** graphics make it a pleasure to play. The dictionary is 
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The Witness Is a full-text adventure that casts the player as a 
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real guilty party. $39.95. Infocom, 125 CambridgePark Dr., 
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Wizardry is an outstanding dungeon exploration adventure pitting 
***** a party of up to six characters against the guardian monsters 
of the evil wizard Werdna, Capture his amulet to earn your 
reward. Even after solving the game, you'll want to go back 
into the dungeon. $59.95. Sir-Tech, 6 Main St.. Ogdens- 
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Word Challenge is a Boggle lookalike. Features multiple (26) skill 
levels and an extensive dictionary. Even "pro" Boggle 
players should find a level that will challenge them, $39,95. 
Hayden. 600 Suffolk St,. Lowell, MA 01854. CP 
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**** different levels of expertise. User friendly, it offers on¬ 
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new puzzles for the creative. $49.95. Palantir, 12777 Jones 
Rd., Houston, TX 77070. NCP (Mar 86) 

XyphuB is a role-playing game pitting four characters (fighters or 
wizards) against multiple scenarios that grow increasingly 
harder. Excellent Mac interface and icon control. $39.95. 
Penguin, PO Box 311, Geneva, II 60134, CP 
Zork I is a full-text adventure game that lets players explore a 
**** strange underground empire. Parser understands full sen¬ 
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success. Beware of the thief. $39.95. Infocom, 125 Cam¬ 
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Zork III is the final chapter in the trilogy. Players come up against 
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ConcertWaro-f is an enhanced version of Con cert Ware. Has 
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of eight at any point in a musical piece. Can read and use 
Concert Ware and Music Works files. $69.95, Great Wave 
Software, PO Box 5847, Stanford. CA 94305. NCP (Nov 85) 
Deluxe Music Construction Set is a good general purpose music 
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most advanced musicians, $50. Electronic Arts, 2755 Cam¬ 
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MusIcWorks allows the user to create and play simple musical 
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very easy. Users can select various instruments and modify 
each to produce new effects, Compositions are limited to 64 
measures. $79.95. Hayden, 600 Suffolk St.. Lowell, MA 
01854. CP (Prem) 

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*•** a special mousepad. Good choice if the original mouse fails. 
$99, Mouse Systems, 2336H Walsh Ave., Santa Clara, CA 
95051. 

Disk Book holds up to 32 disks securely, opening from the side 
**m instead of the top to prevent disks falling out when the case 
is opened. Sides are snugly fitted to keep contents secure; 
velcro closing, $34.95, Microstore. PO Box 37, St. Peter. 
MN 56082. 

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made, attractive and useful $19.95. Innovative Technol¬ 
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Ergotron is a Mac (and external drive) holder that allows a full 
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unit is also very easy to use. $99.95. Ergotron, PO Box 
17013, Minneapolis, MN 55417. 

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***• stakes. This quiet, small unit uses Apple's new Hierarchical 
File System (HFS). The lack of utility software (spooler, 
backup, security) is its only drawback. $1499. Apple Com¬ 
puter, 20525 Mariani Ave,, Cupertino, CA 95014. (Feb 86) 
HyperDrive HD20 is an internal 20-megabyte hard disk. It only 
***• adds about 5 pounds to the Mac s weight. Good, full featured 
unit with all common utilities; spooler, security program and 
backup utility. It could use memory a bit more efficiently, 
and it remains to see how well it will work with Apple's new 
HFS. $2195 installed in a 512K Mac. General Computer 
Company, 215 First St., Cambridge, MA 02142, 
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**** and connects to the external drive port (not SCSI), Good, 
reliable, but noisy unit. Requires 512K+. $1595. PCPC, 
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with 640K RAM and two floppy drives, Dayna Communica¬ 
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Madittlzer is a graphics tablet and absolute positioning device 
**** that replaces the mouse Various scales are possible. $599. 

GTCO Corp., 1055 First St.. RockviEle, MD 20850. (Jan 86) 
MacNIfty Sound Digitizer turns ordinary analog sound input into 
***** digital waveforms which can then be manipulated using the 
Sound Cap software it comes with. Capable of truly stunning 
effects. Requires 512K+. $129.95, Kette Group. 6860 
Shingle Creek Pkwy.,Minneapolis. MN 55445. 

MacNIfty Stereo Music System converts Mac sounds to Simula!- 
***** ed stereo by splitting highs and lows between two powerful 
speakers. User controls bass, treble, balance, low and high 
impedance output, and most importantly, volume. Hear your 
music compositions the way they were meant to be played, 
$79.95, Kette Group, 13895 Industrial Park Blvd., Minne¬ 
apolis, MN 55441, 

MacNIfty Switch allows any port on your Mac to connect to two 
**#* peripherals. Turn the knob to switch between the two 
devices. $34.95. Kette Group, 13895 Industrial Park Blvd., 
Minneapolis, MN 55441. 

MacTabJet is a stylus-driven graphics tablet. Users can easily 
**#* sketch or trace art using this absolute-positioning device. 
Has a working area the size of the Mac screen. Allows 
concurrent use of the mouse, $495. Summagraphics Corp,, 
777 State St. Extension, Fairfield, CT 06430. (Jan 86) 
Mac Turbo Touch is a mouse replacement device. Features 
**•* include 2,5-inch diameter track ball with control buttons to 
either side. Users either love it (and refuse to use anything 
else) or hate it; very few so-so's on this product. Takes a few 
days to get used to. S129, Assimilation. 485 Alberto Way, 
Los Gatos, CA 95030. 

MacVUIon is a digitizer that uses an ordinary video camera for 
••** input. Capable of extremely fine results and special effects. 
Easy to use and well documented. $399.95. Koala. 3100 
Patrick Henry Dr., Santa Clara, CA 95052. 

Magic is both the most intimidating and easiest to use digitizer 
***■ available. Use a regular video camera for input. Once the 
crowded screen is mastered, any effect is possible. $399, 
$549 with camera. New Image Technology, 10300 Green- 
belt Rd,, Seabrook, MD 20706. 

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***** market. Gray, plush fur, round felt ears and button nose and 
eyes make your mouse look authentic. $5.49; $5.95 for 
MouseTop wearing wire-frame glasses. H&H Enterprises. PO 
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■*■» the efficiency of your mouse while helping to keep it clean. 
Pad comes in a variety of colors. Particularly useful in the 
typical office desk top environment. $10, Moustrak, 1 
Weatherly, Mill Valley, CA 94941, 

NoLabelSystem is a plastic permanent labeling system in which 
■*** users slide new tabs into a transparent plastic case on the 
disk. The tabs stick out of the case slightly, making them 
easier to read while in the drive. NLS-3,5 set contains 100 
plastic pockets, 100 white tabbed insert cards. 100 color 
tabbed cards and instructions $19.45 plus $3 shipping. 
Weber & Sons, NLS Dept., 3468 Hwy 9, Freehold, NJ 07728. 
Numeric Turbo combines a track ball with an enhanced numeric 
**** keypad. The keypad includes working cursor keys and other 
direct function keys that bypass the Macs Command and 
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some never learn to like it. Those who do rarely ever use a 
mouse again, $149, Assimilation. 485 Alberto Way, Los 
Gatos, CA 95030. 

ThunderScan replaces the ribbon cartridge in an ImageWriter, 
*•** which is required to use it. Laser scans art that can be run 
through the ImageWriter. producing high-quality digitized 
images. The images can be manipulated as they are created 
or afterward, Mac Plus compatible using optional adapter 
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(continuedfixmt page 72) 
ate Smartcom /Ts new implementa¬ 
tion of the MaeBinary file format 
standard in version 2.2A. When 
downloading using the MaeBinary 
format, users can specify a name for 
the file, to be used if there is no 
received file name or to override die 
received file name. If no name is 
specified, the received file name will 
be used. If die received file name is 
already present the program adds the 
current time-of-day to the file name 
to make it unique, and ar the end of 
the download it asks if the user 
wants to replace die existing file 
instead of using the alternate name 
(except when the download is under 
autopilot control, in which case it 
does not ask,—it assumes no one is 
there to answer). Smartcom II also 
shows the name of the volume being 
received to in the download progress 
dialog box, not just the received file 
name, something many other termi¬ 
nal programs do not. 

Power users will also appreciate 
Smancom IPs text scroll It has the 
fastest screen updating of all the 
terminal programs, easily keeping 
pace at 2400 baud, and has a 
"smooth scroll 1 ’ option that, while 
slowing the screen update down, 
makes reading incoming text much 
easier. A technique to get the best of 
both worlds is to use normal (fast) 
scrolling, and when something ap¬ 
pears on the screen that needs more 
study, mouse-down in the down 
scroll arrow. This suspends screen 
updates (although data is still com¬ 
ing in). Releasing the mouse button 
then allows Smancom to start screen 
updating again, and at this point the 
speed of the screen updating will be 
very apparent as it catches up. An 
alternative to this technique is to 
scroll up very slightly, which will 
halt the screen updating. However, 
in this case the peruse bilifer is still 
bang updated off-screen, so that 
subsequently scrolling down will not 
cause the feverish “catch-up” scroll 

Smancom II was a very good ter¬ 
minal program when it was first 
introduced. Its ability to let users 
scroll back in its large peruse {or 
capture) buffer, and select and ap¬ 
pend items to a single file, is current¬ 
ly unequaled and invaluable, particu¬ 


larly when archiving parts of long 
telecommunication sessions. The 
features that version 2.2A add make 
it excellent, both for novices and for 
the power user. 

It still is not perfect. It has no 
support for CRC Xmodem, its use of 
windows makes having an open desk 
accessor)' on the screen while using 
Smancom impossible, ir doesn't sup¬ 
port on-screen clickable buttons, and 
doesn't support an auto receive trig¬ 
ger (users must still "do a receive” 
manually). But the Hayes staff has 
done an excellent job of enhancing 
it, and there is no reason to believe 
they are going to stop now. 

SO? WHICH ONE IS BEST? 

When faced with three outstand¬ 
ing telecommunications packages, 
each with different strong points and 
weak points, selecting one as the 
"best” becomes impassible. It de¬ 
pends on what features are needed 
and/or desired. 

All three programs arc fully com¬ 
patible with the Mac Plus and the 
Mac XL. All run on a 128k Mac, 
although they arc big programs and 
their performance suffers very no¬ 
ticeably on that machine. None are 
copy protected. All three have excel¬ 
lent user support and high-quality 
documentation. Each performs all 
the basic functions that any telecom¬ 
munication program should (see p. 
74, MartJser , October 1985). 

For beauty and brawn, Smartcom 
II is the choice. A very powerful, yet 
elegant program, visually pleasing 
without sacrificing function. Smart- 
corn II is a strong contender and will 
remain so as Hayes continues to 
en fiance it. For 2400 baud users, and 
users of Haves modems, the screen 
updating and support of rhe Hayes 
command set make Smancom II an 
excellent choice. 

For sophisticated scripting, Aliav- 
phtme gets the nod. Powerful, yet 
easy to use, thanks to its WAR n ME 
feature. Microphone is an excellent 
addition to the terminal program 
arena. For users who need the ability 
to perform complicated scripts with 
many possible prompts along die 
way. Microphone is rhe way to go+ 

For sheer flexibility. Red Ryder is 
the winner. The ability to interface 


to many systems using such a variety 
of protocols makes Red Ryder the 
choice tor those who frequent many 
different services. Users who need 
Kcrmit, or CompuServe B protocol, 
or RLE graphics, or fabulous 
\Ti00 emulation need Red Ryder. 


Rohm IT Wigpms ts a New Turk - based 
computer consultant and writer. 



MICROPHONE § 


Overall Rating ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ 

Follows Mac Interface ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ 

Printed Documentation ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ 

On-Screen Help None 

Performance ■ ■ ■ ■ □ 

Support ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ 

Consumer Value ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ 

Comments: High-powered program with 
"Watch Me" automatic script writer. Best 
Feature: User-creatable on-screen macro 
buttons. Worst Feature: Speed ol screen 
updates. Version reviewed: 1.0. List Price: 
S74.95. Published by Software Ventures. 
2907 Claremont Ave.. Suite 220, Berkeley. 
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RED RYDER g 

Overall Rating ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ 

Follows Mac Interface ■ ■ ■ ■ □ 

Primed Documentation ■ ■ ■ ■ □ 

On-Screen Help None 

Performance ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ 

Support ■ ■ I ■ ■ 

Consumer Value ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ 

Comments: Flexible and powerful 

shareware. Loaded with features. Includes 
BBS when registered. Best Feature: Out¬ 
standing VTIQ0 emulation. Worst Feature: 
Multitude of choices required make it hard¬ 
est to use in this group. Version reviewed: 
8.0 List Price: S40 Shareware. Published 
by The Freesoft Company, 10828 Lacklink 
St. Louis, M0 63114. (314) 428-8057. 

SMARTCOMII ff 

Overall Rating 

Follows Mac Interface 
Printed Documentation ■ ■ ■ ■ u 
On-Screen Help 
Performance 

Support ■ ■ ■ □ □ 

Consumer Value 
Comments: Combines best ease ot use 
with enormous power, Best Feature: Total¬ 
ly icon-based interface, extending to com¬ 
mand language. Worst Feature: Lack of on¬ 
screen macros buttons. Version reviewed: 
2.2A. List Price: $149. Published by Hayes 
Microcomputer Products. Inc., 5923 
Peachtree industrial Blvd., Norcross, GA 
30092 (404) 449-8791. 


138 MACUSER JULY 1986 
















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form. TTie icons at the 
bottom do not always 
clearty indicate what they 
do. For example, the little 
Mac (second from the 
left! brings up the Search 
dialog box! 


(continued fivm fmje 52) 

Ensemble also provides enough 
word processing power to let you 
create mailing labels, merge form 
letters, spiec up charts and create 
complete printed reports. While En¬ 
semble requires some commitment to 
learn, it packs a lot of power into a 
program that will run on only 128K. 

Both programs are compatible 
with Switcher, if you have at least 


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word processing and charting abilities.Best 
Feature: The databases sorting and listing 
capabilities. Worst Feature: Over-reliance 
on too many obscure icons. List Price: 
$299.95. Published by Hayden Software. 
650 Suffolk St.. Lowell, MA 01854. (617) 
937-0200, (800) 631-0856. 

Copy protected. 


5I2K of RAM. Both programs will 
also run on a 128K Mac with only 
the internal drive, although an exter¬ 
nal drive is really a requirement for 
serious work. And both programs 
provide support via toll-free tele¬ 
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cost. 0^ 


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Comments: Integrated program that re¬ 
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database, word processing and charting 
abilities. Best Features: Ease of use and 
good integration. Worst Feature: Copy pro¬ 
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(continued fivm page 63) 
paper. You must use film especially 
made for use in copy machines, not 
standard overhead transparencies, 
since the heat from the printer will 
melt the material and probably dam¬ 
age the LaserWriter. If you wish, 
you can print your charts on paper 
with the LaserWriter, and then use a 
copy machine to copy the charts 
onto the film. Overlays, inks and/or 
markers can be used to add color. 
This technique can be used to stun¬ 
ning effect. 

For charts that use a lot of text, no 
other personal computer, color or 
black and white, could do the job as 
quickly and efficiently as die Macin¬ 
tosh. Combined with the power of 
that other wonderful computer, the 
LaserWriter, and a generous helping 
of creative energy, the Mac can 
prove to be a powerful visual presen¬ 
tation tool, even without a rainbow- 
blessed screen. 

Product Info 

Jazz, $395, Lotus Development Corp.. 
55 Cambridge Parkway, Cambridge. MA 
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Excel, $395. Chart, SI25, Microsoft 
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WA 98052. 

ThinkTank 512, $245, Living Videotext, 
2432 Charleston Rd.. Mountain View, CA 
94043. 

Click Art Publications, $49.95, TMaker 
Graphics, 2115 Landings Dr., Mountain 
View, CA 94043. 

Mac Art Dept., $39.95, Simon & Schus¬ 
ter. 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New 
York, NY 10020. 

Mac The Knife/Vol 1; Treasury, Miles 

Computing, 7136 Haskell Avenue, Suite 
212, Van Nuys, CA 91406. 

MacMemories/1—13, $39.95 each disk; 
$5 for a ring-bound catalog showing alt 
images, ImageWorld, Inc., PQ Box 10415, 
Eugene, OR 97440, 

Computer Graphics Color Packet, 
$11.50, direct-mail only, Channel Produc¬ 
tions, 3742 Portofino, Suite A, Santa Bar¬ 
bara, CA 93105. 

MacDraw, $195, Apple Computer, Inc., 
20525 Marian! Avenue, Cupertino, CA 
95014. 

Presentation Graphics on the Macintosh, 
$18.95, Steve Lambert, Microsoft Press, 
16011 NE 36th Way, Redmond, WA98052. 

Rubma Schwartz ami Michael C. allay are 
imdciy rend computer-graphics expats and 
writers. 


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UNDER CONSTRUCTION 

(continuedfivm page 90) 
clicking on something else or repeat¬ 
ed Jv pressing the Shift key. 

The other difficulty comes up 
when you ny to select a solution 
square prior to due entry. When I 
experimented with the program, one 
of the leftmost squares wouldn't 
accept the mouse dick command. 
Repeated attempts failed, so after 
some thought t merely clicked on 
the second letter in that solution. It 
worked like a charm. 

The actual process is rime-con¬ 
suming, not because of the software, 
but because of the mental gyrations 
needed to develop a matrix of inter¬ 
twined words. The commitment 
needed to create a puzzle is out¬ 
weighed by only one thing — the 
pleasure of seeing someone play it. 

THE MACINTOSH MYSTIC 

Gypsy, by Magnum Software, is 
essentially a computerized rendition 
of a Ouija board* This program 
includes a pressboard “ganieboard" 
and a ball-bearing supported, free¬ 
wheeling Mouse Mover in place of 
the standard plastic heart with a pin 
through it. The Mouse Mover slips 
around the mouse, giving it the 
“precise* 1 movement necessary' for 
control by the mystic spirits, and it 
works well under more mundane 
conditions, too. 

Moving the mouse on the board 
moves the on-screen pointer simulta¬ 
neously. Questions are answered in 
this manner, though some may need 
interpretation. A basic text editor is 
provided for just this eventuality. 

A couple of different boards and 
pointers arc included on the pro¬ 
gram disk. These may be modified, 
or you can start with a clean slate bv 
transferring MacPaint files. The pro¬ 
cess is uncomplicated and easy to 
master, all the more incredible once 
you realize the power and flexibility 
inherent in Gypsy. 

Pages 9 through 27 of the manual 
cover all facets of board creatic hi, the 
latter part being a concise tutorial. 
Though von can proceed along a 
number of different avenues, it is 
best to go with the prescribed order. 

Work on the background first, 
followed by a pointer, creation and 
placement of text* and customization 


of sound effects. Then the twinkling, 
very mystic-looking stars can be ma¬ 
nipulated. 

Since MacPaint files mav be used 
for backgrounds or pointers, the 
possibilities are limitless. Text can be 
visible or invisible, and visible text 
may be displayed in a number of 
fonts. 

The sound selection screen makes 
it easy to set tone duration and 
volume as well as change notes. 
Click on a board character (letter or 
word), then click a key on the piano. 
The note chosen appears in the char¬ 
acter box. A Cut and Paste feature 
allows f ast duplication of the features 
in selected boxes. 

Stars, one of the program's most 
interesting graphic nourishes, come 
in a number of varieties, all selectable 
from a “srar bucket,*' Besides choos¬ 
ing different- patterns, and deciding 
on blinking or non- blinking objects, 
you can work with foreground or 
background stars. Background bril¬ 
liants are more malleable, meaning 
that anything about them can be 
changed. Foreground stars can only 
have their animation sequences sped 
up or slowed down* 

With Gypsy it is possible to make a 
board for even' imagineable use — 
serious, humorous or somewhere in 
between* Unbeatable at parties, it’s 
also indispensable tor seances and 
midnight meetings at the morgue* 

MAC1NO0GA CHOOCHOO 

Pardon me, is that the MacInwja 
CiwoChoa'i To say that Fortnum 
Software's electronic train set has a 
sense of humor is an understate¬ 
ment. This build-ir-yourself bonanza 
comes complete with document li¬ 
braries that can be used to create 
railroad layouts* The trash can is a 
steel crusher, the desktop is a com¬ 
plete railroad yard. The excellent 
icons effectively portray intent as 
well as content* 

Though there are prcbuilt trains 
and layouts, Maclnooga ChooChm is 
really meant to be a construction set* 
More effort goes into building roads 
than running them* That doesn't 
mean operating the roads is antieli- 
macric — actually, nothing could be 
further from the truth. 

By selecting and dragging icons of 


track sections, buildings, scenery and 
related items (signals, switches, cou¬ 
plers, platforms, and so on), home 
railroaders develop a layout up to 
two screens high. Tracks may wrap 
around the screen, and night runs 
are possible. Both provide additional 
realism. 

Since the files are MacPaint-com- 
patiblc, extra scenery and objects 
(tunnels, towers, etc.), may be added 
at any time* 

A grid pattern makes placement 
nearly foolproof. Multiple squares 
can be selected at once, making large 
block moves and copies a reality* 
Objects within squares are handled 
individually; great for fine tuning* 

Mncltwujjn ChoaChoo is by far the 
most complex Mac construction set 
program* It accurately simulates a 
sophisticated real life situation* In 
the real world, lots of control and 
coordination is needed to make 
trains run safely and on-time, and 
the same is true here. Proper place¬ 
ment of signals and switches is essen¬ 
tial to a smooth operation. 

Make sure to read the “Must Read 
* , *" file with Mac Write. It has 
invaluable information about up¬ 
dates made since the manual was 
published* 

On-the-job experience dictates 
that you sprinkle the track liberally 
with signal lights to control the flow 
of traffic. This is particularly impor¬ 
tant with multiple crossovers and 
trains- In these cases it is also smart 
to create (s wire liable) alternate right- 
of-ways* Decouplers can be tricky, 
on a conceptual level. They are best 
left for shunting yards. 

Things worked best when I first 
designed the work (shunting) yard, 
sidings and repair areas. Connecting 
these points came next, followed by 
placement of platforms, buildings 
and scenery. After analyzing the an¬ 
ticipated traffic patterns and making 
adjustments, I placed switches, sig¬ 
nals, bumpers and decouplers* The 
final step was a thorough test in both 
directions by a single engine* 

As the potential for frustration is 
high, take your time and test every¬ 
thing* The results will astound* 

Ted Satnnwtf ts a freelance miter specializ¬ 
ing in computer games and mtenammeni. 


JULY 1986 MACUSER 141 




A TASTE OF PASCAL 


(continuedfrom pnjje 107) 

clear of any windows. Now it’s time 

to set tilings up for our program. 

This procedure calls three other 
procedures, which set up the applica¬ 
tions window, menu bar and win¬ 
dow limits. The order of these calls is 
somewhat critical. The reason for 
this is that information about win¬ 
dows must occupy memory blocks 
that cannot be moved around. To 
avoid fragmenting the Macintosh’s 
memory heap, the window set-ups 
are done first so that they are lowest 
in memory. 

The window' set-up is straightfor¬ 
ward, The space that the window- 
will occupy on the Mac screen is 
defined by die VVReet variable. Note 
that the procedure SetRect has the 
parameters: 

SetRect(Rect,Lcft,Top,Rjght$ottom) 

This is backwards from the usual 
top, left, bottom, and right method 
used by most all of the rest of the 
Macintosh routines. NewWindow 
actually creates the window with the 
parameters we pass ir. The Nil pa¬ 
rameter tells the Window Manager 
to place this window' behind all of 
the other windows on the screen. 
This is fine since it is the only 
window there to begin with. 


Typc_oiW is an Integer that tells 
the Window Manager what window- 
type is wanted. The possible values 
are: standard document, 0; alert box, 
1; plain box, 2; plain box with 
shadows 3; document without size 
box, 4; and rounded corner docu¬ 
ment, 16, 

SccUpMenus does exactly chat. 
The procedure NewMenu takes just 
two parameters. The first is a con¬ 
stant, which was declared at the 
beginning of the program* This con¬ 
stant will be our method of finding 
out which menu has been selected 
later. The second parameter is a 
string that contains the name of the 
menu. Note the trick for getting the 
Apple (ASCII code 20) on the menu 
bar. NewMenu passes back a handle 
to the menu it created. 

AddResMcnu calls the Resource 
Manager to add all resources of type 
“DRVR” to the Apple menu. These 
resource types arc the special drivers 
that define desk accessories. Their 
names will he in the Apple menu. 

Next we add our own menu which 
we’ll name “File” and which will 
have only one item under it: “Quit.” 
The slash followed by a letter means 
that this item will have a command 
key equivalent that appear in the 


menu with the familiar cloverieaf 
symbol. Finally, DrawMcnuBar puts 
up our new menus on the menu bar. 

The last set-up is called SetUpLi- 
mits. This routine defines three rect¬ 
angles w hich w'ill control the area of 
the screen that our window- can be 
moved and sized to. Screen Bits is an 
externally defined QuickDraw vari¬ 
able of type BitMap. The field de¬ 
fined by Screen Bits, bounds is a 
Rectangle defining the entire Macin¬ 
tosh screen. DragArea is our own 
variable, w'hich will define the area 
where the window' can be dragged 
to. Note that the top coordinate is 
offset by 24, which keeps the win¬ 
dow' from being dragged past the 
Menu bar. Likewise, the other coor¬ 
dinates are defined so that the win¬ 
dow- cannot be accidentally moved 
off of the screen entirely. 

The last thing that SctUpLimits 
does is InitCursor* This procedure 
brings back the standard arrow cur¬ 
sor in case the last application left 
the watch cursor, or something else. 

Once the SetUps are finished our 
application is ready to start on its 
specific business. Next month we’ll 
look at the special process by which a 
Macintosh program is set up to 
handle the standard interface. 


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THE 

by John C. Dvorak 

THEY SOLD 
THEIR SOULS 
TO THE 

FORTUNE 1000 

A decade of micros has passed. Some¬ 
where it took a left turn as most of 
die world went right. The microcom¬ 
puter industry had high hopes for itself 
in 1976. Those days arc over. Last year-, 
most of tile original Byte Shops had 
folded, including the place where I 
bo Light my first computer {a SOL-20). It 
was die Berkeley Byte Shop. By the time 
it folded it wasn't even a Byte Shop 
anymore. For some unknow n reason the 
owner changed its name to the Comput¬ 
er Center and then, finally, to Trak 
Computers. (The latter was the sugges¬ 
tion of a highly paid consultant.) 

The coup dc grace was delivered to die 
West Coast scene when the once power¬ 
ful West Coast Computer Dealers Asso¬ 
ciation pulled up its stakes and said 
goodbye. Most of its members were out 
of business or had gone to work for 
Business land. 

Critics like to think that IBM had 
something to do with all this. Unfortu¬ 
nately, it's not true. IBM created oppor¬ 
tunities with an open architecture com¬ 
puter that encouraged third parties and 
entrepreneurs. Apple’s dosed-up Mac 
and scanty documentation (at the begin¬ 
ning) contributed more to the decline 
than did IBM. But that’s academic, be¬ 
cause I don't think either company is at 
fault. 

It’s the people in the business who arc 
at fault, with their acceptance of the 
notion that you have to crawl like a 
worm to make money. Let’s look around 
at the scene and see what’s happened. 

First of all, the nifty computer store 
isn’t dead as a moneymaker. Scattered 
like che lost tribe of Israel, they’re here 
and there. There arc new stores thar 
specialize in aggressive sales of clones 
and zippy little alternative machines. 
These newcomers arc doing quite nicely, 
thank you. They’re selling what the old 
Byte Shops used to sell — fun comput¬ 
ing- The Byte Shops and a lot of the 
older stores didn’t keep up with the 
changing scene, and many of them fold- 


144 M A c U S E R JULY 


DEVIL’S A D V 0 C 



ed with an inventory of dusty old CP/M 
machines. Until the bitter end they were 
saying, “A Z-80 machine has more per¬ 
formance than an IBM PC.” Yeah, and 
all of 64K of memory. The hottest Z-80 
is like owning a supercharged, fuel-in¬ 
jected Chevy with a one-gallon tank. 

These guys were snick in a limbo of 
their own creation. They didn’t keep up 
because the)' booted our the hobbyists 
(the people who got them started). The 
stores wanted to make the big bucks by 
selling to the business user. Now they’re 
broke. Good move! The net result is that 
an entire layer of industry leadership has 
disappeared. This is a tragedy. Where are 
the wizened sages? 

One group partially responsible is 
magazine publishers. For one thing, 
you’re reading one of the few genuine 
enthusiast journals when you pick up a 
copy of MacUser. While the owners of 
diis magazine think its great to be the 
only game in town, 1 think it stinks that 
there aren’t others like it. After all, a 
primary reason for all this stagnation is 
the stagnant magazines. They used to be 
boostc rs for the tech notogy — not 
boosters in the sense that they were 
flacks, mind you, but in die sense that 
they genuinely liked die business. Then 
they began to take themselves too seri¬ 
ously. Soon thereafter, they began to 
hire “journalists" to write for them. 
These are guys and gals who could care 
less about the scene, let’s face it. Few, if 
any of them, have any notion about the 
innards of a machine and most of them 
want to write cop stories for the home¬ 
town daily. 

Ten years ago the magazines were 
your friends, your next door neighbor. 




ATE 


They taught you about the innards of the 
machines: how they worked; why you 
should program in BASIC; why you 
should program in APL. The early Issues 
of any magazine arc filled widi enthusias¬ 
tic introductory material — die kind of 
information a newcomer needs to know 
to be inspired by it all. A generation of 
enthusiasts and hobbyists and original 
thinkers was bom, and they spread out 
among the masses to convert more hedo¬ 
nists to learn the way of the machine. 
Then they disappeared. Where’d they 
go> Did they all get rich and move to 
Newport? 

They gave up, it seems to me. They 
finally got tired of explaining the differ¬ 
ence between a bit and a byte. Talk was 
cheap in 1976, when the difference be¬ 
tween a bit and a byte was interesting to 
the apostolic micro user. Now it’s a bore. 
“Read about it in a book,” they’ll tell 
you. “Computers aren’t really good for 
any tiling,” they’ll tell you. “We sell solu¬ 
tions, nor compurers,” they’ll tell you. 

They’ve all sold our. Down the river. 
They’ve betrayed their own dreams and 
ideals for a few gold coins. Screw ’em. 

If people (who should know better) 
can’t derive usefulness and fun and en¬ 
richment from a small computer, then 
they should retire to Scottsdale and pull 
weeds for the rest of their miserable lives. 
The newcomers will eventually pick up 
die slack, A hundred years from now you 
can claim to be a founder of the personal 
computer revolution if you got started in 
1995, 

But you still have to wonder how 
today’s newcomer will fare with no wiz¬ 
ened sages, no Byte Shops, no enthusiast 
magazines and nothing but surly chain 
store dealers who don’t know spit from 
Perrier. Meanwhile, the hapless novice is 
surrounded by negative press that claims 
these machines are as useless as fender 
skirts on a ten-speed bike. 

The newcomer lias no way of finding 
our that there are hundreds of useful new 
products released daily. The stores don’t 
tell them and the one or two decent 
magazines can’t do it all. The promising 
new product instead finds its way to a 
reviewer’s shelf only to be discovered 
long after the programmer had to go 
back to work for Bechtel to pay the rent. 
The stores, the magazines and the old- 
rimers (who have long since sold their 
souls) spend all their time crawling on 
their hands and knees so they can lick the 
boots of the Fortune 1000 computer 
user. It’s pat!ictie. 

Lets return personal computing to¬ 
wards the direction it needs to head. 
Towards a person, not a skyscraper. 


PHILIP ANDERSON 








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